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$500 notes of the Banco de Londres y México

Both of the animal vignettes on the $500 note are based on paintings by the renowned French artist Rosa Bonheur (1822-1889) and were engraved by James Smillie. The face vignette is “A Family of Lions” from Bonheur’s 1881 “The Lions At Home”.

The Lions At Home

Horse Fair vignette

The Horse FairThe vignette on the back was entitled "Horse Breaking" and is taken from Bonheur’s “The Horse Fair”. This painting debuted at the Paris Salon of 1853, and was gifted by Cornelius Vanderbilt in 1887, a day after he paid $55,000 for it, to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, where it presently resides.

James Smillie joined the National Bank Note Company (NBNC) in 1861. He (or his son, James D. Smillie) subsequently engraved a full version of Bonheur’s “The Horse Fair”, which appeared on several U.S. banknotes. Partial vignettes with one or three horses were initially engraved by Henry S. Beckwith in 1867 when he was at the NBNC and the three-horse vignette, used by the Banco de Londres y México, was later, around 1877, finished by James Smillie while he was still at the NBNC. The American Bank Note Company inherited this die in 1879 when it absorbed the NBNC,

Londres 500 G 13486

Londres 500 G 13486 reverse

Date issued Date on note Series from to Interventor Cajero/
Consejero
Gerente comment
  1889/22 July 1896 A 0001   Landâzuri  Aspel Waters includes numbers 0078 and 0214
  1 July 1889     Landâzuri Herrera Zamora Waters includes numbers 2700 and 3702
      5000        
1 July - 1 December 1897informe of Interventor Landázuri, 27 February 1898 in Memoria de las Instituciones de Crédito, 1897-1899   1 July 1897   B    0001 2000 Landâzuri  Braniff Waters  includes numbers 0050CNBanxico #10441 to 1708CNBanxico #57095  
1 January - 30 June 1898informe of Interventor Landázuri, 30 June 1898 in Memoria de las Instituciones de Crédito, 1897-1899   2001 2500 includes number 2293CNBanxico #57097 
Authorised and signed January - June 1902informe of Interventor Chavero, 4 July 1902 in Memoria de las Instituciones de Crédito, 1900 but not issued by December 1902informe of Interventor Chavero, 10 January 1903 in Memoria de las Instituciones de Crédito, 1902   2501 3500 Chavero  Braniff    
  10 January 1903 C       Chavero González Cosio Mitchell includes number 2595CNBanxico #10444 overprinted DURANGO
            includes number 2790CNBanxico #57085
5 January 1909informe of Interventor F. Cortina, 20 July 1909               50 notes issued
  15 March 1909 C     Cortina González Cosio Mitchell includes numbers 3611 to 4416
1 April 1909informe of Interventor F. Cortina, 20 July 1909               400 notes issued 
14 June 1909informe of Interventor F. Cortina, 20 July 1909               400 notes issued
18 June 1909informe of Interventor F. Cortina, 20 July 1909               200 notes issued
  1 July 1909 E     Cortina González Cosio Mitchell  includes numbers 4537CNBanxico #57117 to 6038 
      includes numbers 6177CNBanxico #57093 to 6257CNBanxico #57090 overprinted Veracruz
      includes numbers 6349 to 7479CNBanxico #57094  
30 April 1910informe of Interventor F. Cortina, 20 July 1910               1,600 notes issued  
30 April 1910informe of Interventor F. Cortina, 20 July 1910   E           200 notes issued for Veracruz
11 October 1910informe of Interventor F. Cortina, 25 January 1911 1 October 1910            

includes number 13462
1,000 notes issued  

16 January 1911informe of Interventor F. Cortina, 20 July 1911               200 notes issued  
  1 May 1911  F   8500 Cortina   Mitchell includes numbers 7591CNBanxico #57262 to 8437CNBanxico #57277  
    8501   González Cosio includes numbers 8516CNBanxico #57268 to 9449CNBanxico #57267
  1 October 1912 G     Elguera Sainz Mitchell includes numbers 11942CNBanxico #57100 to 17934CNBanxico #57103
        Domenge includes number 22040CNBanxico #57101
  1 October 1913    G         Elguera Domenge Mitchell includes numbers 9528 to 9773
      Domenge includes numbers 10301 to 10367
      Sainz includes number 10437
      Sainz includes numbers 11379 to 12163
      Domenge includes numbers 12301 to 13098
      Domenge includes numbers 13209 to 13265
      Domenge includes numbers 13449 to 13556
      Sainz includes numbers 13613 to 13641
      Domenge includes numbers 13702 to 13775
      Sainz includes numbers 13803 to 14136
      Domenge includes numbers 14209 to 14289
      Sainz includes numbers 14358CNBanxico #57005
      Sainz includes numbers 14919 to 14994
      Domenge includes numbers 15061 to 15295
      Sainz includes number 15326
      Sainz includes numbers 15704 to 15909
      Domenge includes numbers 16025 and 16176
      Domenge include numbers 16307
      Domenge includes numbers 16402 to 16499
      Domenge includes numbers 16673 to 16734
      Domenge includes number 16894
      Sainz includes numbers 16986 to 16975
      Domenge includes numbers 17359, 17437 to 17452
      Sainz includes numbers 17501CNBanxico #10443 to 17740
      Sainz includes numbers 17917 to 18199
      Sainz includes numbers 18334 to 18484
      Domenge includes numbers 18509 and 18735
      Sainz includes number 18891CNBanxico #57004
      Domenge includes numbers 18923 to 18977
      Domenge include numbers 19458
      Domenge includes numbers 20701 to 20856
      Sainz includes numbers 21149 to 21151
      Domenge includes number 21465
      Domenge includes numbers 22023 to 22076
      Sainz includes numbers 22765 to 23295
      Domenge Höpfner includes numbers 24710 to 25444
      Domenge Mitchell includes number 29273
      Sainz Höpfner includes numbers 29954 to 30118
      31501 35500       not delivered to the bank