50c and $1 notes of the Banco de Nuevo León

50c proof

Following Huerta's decree of 30 March 1914 allowing banks to issue 50c notes the ABNC produced a proof of such a denomination, pending an order for 200,000 notes^{ABNC, letter to Charles Blackmore, Resident Agent, Mexico City, 3 April 1916}, but the order did not materialise and no notes were printed.

$1 note

The vignettes are of General Zaragoza and the goddess Minerva.

All 50,000 notes were issued by 1 April 1897.

These appear to have additional codes. 22101^{CNBanxico #11698} and 25682 had a large red P twice, 32422 had a red M twice, 37631 had a large blue S. These probably referred to individual branches - P for Ciudad Porforio Díaz, M for Matamoros or Monclova, S for [        ].

In 1897 the Ley General de Instituciones de Crédito prohibited banks from issuing notes in denominations below five pesos and banks had to withdraw any outstanding notes within two years so these were called in. 40,000 of these notes were incinerated on 2 January 1900^{informe of interventor Camacho, 21 January 1900, Memorias de las Instituciones de Crédito correspondientes a los años 1897-1898-1899, tomo I}. By then end of 1902 another 5,504 had been collected^{informe of interventor Camacho, 20 January 1903 Memorias de las Instituciones de Crédito correspondientes á los años 1900-1902, vol. I}.

Then when in November 1913 Huerta removed this restriction the bank of Nuevo Leon placed a new order with the American Bank Note Company.