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Banco de Coahuila drawn on the Banco de la Laguna

Date on note Denom Series from to total
number
 total
value
 
7 October 1913 $1 A 1 10000 10,000 $10,000  
        includes numbers 10799 to 19369CNBanxico #131
$5 A 1 10000 10,000 50,000 includes numbers 1333CNBanxico #10191 to 9497
$10 A 1 10000 10,000 100,000 includes numbers 552 to 5173
$20 A 1 5000 5,000 100,000 includes numbers 50with a resello for San Luis Potosí to  64with a resello for San Luis Potosí
        includes number 5077
          $260,000  

 

According to a newspaper article written thirty years later the Banco de Coahuila issued $100,000 in cheques drawn on the Banco de la Laguna but this proved insufficient and they resorted to issuing moreEl Siglo de Torreón,11 October 1943.

A second series was dated 5 February 1914

Date on note Denom Series from to total
number
 total
value
 
5 February 1914 $5 B         includes numbers 508CNBanxico #10162 to 1091
$10 B         includes numbers 903 to 2488CNBanxico #10163
$20 B         includes numbers 641CNBanxico #10164 to 5842CNBanxico #133
             

 

The signatories are:

[If same person] When Torreón was established as a town the Administración Subalterna de Timbres was moved there from Matamoros de la Laguna. Francisco Arellano was in charge until 1898 when Ricardo Blázquez took over. He was still Administrador subalterno del Timbre in 1906El Tiempo, Año XXIII, Núm. 7,666, 9 January 1906.

Ricardo Blázquez was 1er auxiliar in the Banco de Coahuila in 1908.

He went on to be the first manager of the Banco Algodonero Refaccionario, S.A., established on 17 January 1933.

sig Blanquier
[identification needed]   sig Coahuila1
Feliciano G. [                  ][identification needed]  sig Feliciano

 

Revalidations

Dick Long in his 1974 auction list two notes with resellos: a $20 series A with a resello for San Luis Potosí[image needed] and a $20 series B with revenue stamps for Guadalajara and San Luis Potosí and a faint resello for Guadalajara[image needed].

Counterfeits

A counterfeit $1 note, probably not contemporary but produced for the souvenir/collector market. The producer wrongly read the signature as Feliciano G. Caballero.

Coahuila on Laguna 1 919