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Branches (Acapulco - Colima)

Acapulco

Acapulco was opened as an agency in 1906. The branch issued $5, $10 and $20 notes, overprinted 'ACAPULCO' twice, dated 1 October 1906.

Nacional 5 Z15 1906362

Banco Nacional 10 M5 M28 1335278

Banco Nacional 50 M5 G14 126567

Aguascalientes 

Aguascalientes

On 9 July 1904 the state legislature signed an agreement[text needed] with José Maria Castelló, apoderado of the bank, for the establishment of a branch in the city of Aguascalientescontract published in El Republicano, 7 August 1904. In return the bank promised to put its notes into circulation.

Banco Nacional 5 M4 K9 977299

Nacional 10 815254

Nacional 10 893741

Autlán

The Banco Nacional de México opened an agency in Autlán in July 1906. The Consultor was Clemente González; Gerente Enrique Torres Pastor and Cajero-Contador José R. AvalosEl Tiempo, Año XXIV, Núm. 7714, 7 July 1906.

The branch issued $5, $10, and $20 notes, overprinted 'AUTLAN JAL' twice, dated 1 August 1905.

Banco Nacional 5 M5 S7 1515664

Banco Nacional 10 M5 H21 1138086

Nacional 20 276357

Bravos

Bravos (Chilpancingo) was opened as an agency in 1902 and a branch in 1905.

The branch issued $5, $10, and $20 notes, overprinted 'BRAVOS / (CHILPANCINGO)' twice, dated 1 December 1902.

Banco Nacional 5 M4 L10 1034957

Nacional 10 M4 884411

Campeche

Campeche was opened as an agency in 1906 and a branch in 1907.

The branch issued $5, $10, $20, $50(?)[image needed] and $100 notes, overprinted 'CAMPECHE' twice, dated 1 October 1906.

Nacional 5 R 1637079

Nacional 10 1315073

Banco Nacional 50 M5 M13 397346

Celaya

Celaya was opened as an agency in 1902 and a branch in 1905.

Chihuahua

In 1883 the sole agents for the Banco Nacional were Ketelsen and Degetau, who were merchants, commission dealers, forwarders. importers and brokers. Their Chihuahua store was at Libertad and Guadalupe Victoria Emilio Ketelsen and Benjamin Detegau were Germans, who had been in Chihuahua since the 1870s. Emilio married Laura Müller, the daughter of Enrique Müller. The store had branches at Cusihuiriachic, Ciudad Juarez and El Paso (Nuevas Casas Grandes in 1905).

The Chihuahua branch was established in March 1885, with an Englishman, Santiago (James) Wastall, as manager, Pedro G. Valdés as cajero, and the Germans Enrique Müller and Emilio Ketelsen and the Frenchman, Ulises Bezaury, forming the board (Junta de Vigilancia). Federico Sisniega took over as manager in 1888Sisniega was a Spanish immigrant who came to Mexico in 1874 and had worked in the Guanajuato branch of the Banco Mercantil Mexicano and the Guadalajara branch of the Banco Nacional de México (first as cajero primero and then as gerente) before taking over the Chihuahua branch in 1888. Alongside his management of the bank, Sisniega soon extended his interests into cattle, agriculture, food production, textiles, transport and mining, helped by a marriage to Luis Terrazas’ daughter, Amada Terrazas Cuilty. In 1900 he was Spanish vice-consul and from 1910 until December 1913 consul..

Nacional 1 CH R11 370761

Nacional 1 CH R11 370761 reverse

Banco Nacional 2 CH G 04049

Banco Nacional 10 761446

Banco Nacional 20 M3 L5 172933

Banco Nacional 50 M3 B2 105546

Ciudad Guzman

The branch issued $5, $10, and $20 notes, overprinted 'C. GUZMAN JAL' twice, dated 1 August 1905.

Banco Nacional 5 1490035

Banco Nacional 10 M5 S4 969454

Nacional 20 252873

Ciudad Juárez

Ciudad Juárez was opened as an agency in 1905.

The branch issued $5, $10, $20 and $50 notes, overprinted 'CIUDAD JUAREZ' twice, dated 1 August 1905.

Banco Nacional 5 1490035

Banco Nacional 10 1034759

Nacional 20 M5 B5 266088Ciudad Victoria

Ciudad Victoria was opened as an agency in 1905.

The branch issued $5, $10, and $20 notes, overprinted 'CIUDAD VICTORIA' twice, dated 1 August 1905.

Banco Nacional 5 M5 L8 1541644

Banco Nacional 10 M5 M11 1037922

Nacional 20 266388

Colima

Colima opened as an agency in 1900 and branch in 1903.

Banco Nacional 5 M4 E9 1005118

Nacional 10 M3 744405

Banco Nacional 10 M4 B17 874462

Banco Nacional 20 M3 B4 164063 Banco Nacional 20 M4 L5 187198