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50 Pesos
| Issuer | Banco Internacional |
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| Year | 1884 |
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| Value | 50 Pesos |
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| Obverse lettering | BANCO INTERNACIONAL BOGOTA, 15 DE DICIEMBRE DE 1884 PAGARÁ AL PORTADOR Á LA VISTA CINCUENTA PESOS EN MONEDA CORRIENTE EL DIRECTOR GERENTE 50 |
| Reverse description | The reverse is printed entirely in red-orange letterpress with a guilloche border and ornamental scrollwork frame. Two large numeral '50' panels appear at left and right. A central block of text references the assimilation decree, with manuscript signatures of the Ministro del Tesoro and Miembros de la Junta de Emisión, along with a manuscript date 'Bogotá, Octubre 30 de 1899' at the lower left. |
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Banco Internacional operated in Mexico under the concession framework established before the 1884 Commercial Code, which first imposed systematic regulation on private note-issuing banks in the republic. The bank was among the smaller concessionaires, and its notes circulated in a market already crowded with competing private issues — many of which were regarded with open suspicion in the interior states far from the issuing branch.
ABNC printed for dozens of Latin American clients in this period, and the plates for Mexican private bank issues of this era were typically engraved to a house standard rather than bespoke specification. Whether this note ever circulated widely or survived redemption is an open question; private Mexican bank paper from the 1880s was heavily culled after the 1910 revolution dismantled the entire concession banking structure.