25c Banco Minero note

Minero 25c B 71184

Minero 25c B 71184 reverse

Date of issue	Date on note	Series	from	to	Interventor	Presidente	Gerente
26 February 1889	1888	A	00001	40000	Granados	Ochoa	E.C.Creel
2 March 1889			40001	80000
9 March 1889			80001	100000
4 June 1889			100001	200000
26 December 1889		B	000001	012000	Cuellar	Ochoa	E.C.Creel	Cuellar's facsimile signature was added on 12 August 1891^{AGN, Antiguos Bancos de Emisión, Actas de Banco Minero, libro 1, 28 February 1888 to 5 January 1899}.
			012001	024000				Cuellar's facsimile signature was added on 13 August 1891
			024001	036000				Cuellar's facsimile signature was added on 14 August 1891
			036001	048000				Cuellar's facsimile signature was added on 15 August 1891
			048001	060000				Cuellar's facsimile signature was added on 16 August 1891
			060001	072000				Cuellar's facsimile signature was added on 17 August 1891
			072001	084000				Cuellar's facsimile signature was added on 18 August 1891
			084001	100000				Cuellar's facsimile signature was added on 19 August 1891

The 25c face, back and tint plates were engraved on 24 July 1888^{ABNC. They were cancelled on 13 April 1932}.

By 1895 Limantour, the Secretario de Hacienda, wanted to reduce the amount of low denomination ($1 and less) banknotes in circulation to restore the position of (and give a use to) silver. On 8 March Enrique Creel wrote to him agreeing with his objectives and pointing out that the Banco Minero had been withdrawing 25c and 50c notes for some time, but asking to be able to replace damaged $1 notes with new ones, and to issue $5 and $10 notes in place of $1 ones^{CEHM, Colección José Y. Limantour, carpeta 16, legajo 4229}.

The Ley General de Instituciones de Crédito of 1897 prohibited the circulation of notes of values less than $4 and so all these 25c notes will have been withdrawn. However, 14,005 notes were still recorded as outstanding in November 1913.