$5 Banco Minero note (1913-1914)

Forty thousand $5 notes (I4-P4, 430001-470000) were ordered on 18 December 1912 and shipped complete on 5 April 1913, by Wells Fargo Express, to the Banco Central Mexicano in Mexico City. On 9 May Wells Fargo advised the ABNC that they were holding the shipment on hand at Laredo and that there were standing against it accrued charges of $73. 05. The ABNC instructed them to hold it subject to further orders and at the same time wrote to the Banco Minero in Chihuahua, asking what they should do. They had no reply and wrote again on 6 August. On 11 August they sent a copy of their last letter to Charles T. Blackmore, their Agent in Mexico City, to see if he could send it through to the bank at Chihuahua. As of 15 September the shipment was still being held at Laredo^{ABNC letter 15 September 1913}. On 21 November the notes were returned from Laredo to New York^{ABNC letter Wells Fargo to ABNC, 24 November 1913} and forwarded to the Banco Central Mexicano by the Ward Line steamer, S.S. Morro Castle, on 4 December^{ABNC letter Wells Fargo to ABNC, 29 November 1913}.

Two tint plates (#1 and #2) made on 3 August 1888, one face plate (#9) made on order F3526, one face plate (#10) made on order F4106, one back plate (#8) made on order F1355 and the centennial back plate made on order F2457 were all cancelled on 13 April 1932^ABNC.