$100 Banco Minero note (1888-1912)

The original $100 face and back plates were engraved on 3 August 1888. The central vignette on the face is of a seller transporting her goods to the market through the canal of La Viga, Mexico City, based on a nineteenth century photograph by the Cruces y Campa studio.

The stock vignette on the reverse was titled 'The Young Students'.

After the 1908 robbery the bank recalled its $100 notes and revalidated them.

The bank kept the record of which notes were restamped, and on which date, in a book now in the Archivo General de la Nación^{AGN, SC224 Antiguos Bancos de Emisión, caja 776, libro 1411} though it contains errors as the serial letters had been used twice, and many of these notes will subsequently have been incinerated. However, known survivors are:

Soon after the robbery the bank wrote to the American Bank Note Company saying it was considering changing the design of the $100 note and asking them to prepare a new design^{ABNC, letter, 21 March 1908}. The ABNC sent the models on 4 April and on 18 April the bank was asking how soon the company could produce 10,000 new notes^ABNC. However, when most of the money was recovered, the bank decided not to change the design, and asked the ABNC to hold on to the models^{ABNC, Juan A. Creel to ABNC, 7 May 1908}.