Issues of El Banco Minero Chihuahuense

25c notes

BMC 25c A 53328

BMC 25c A 53328 reverse

Date on note	Series	from	to	Presidente	Contador	Admin. date/code
1880	A	00001		Ochoa	Samaniego		with signature of Administración General de Rentas and bar overprint includes numbers 27 to 2125
							includes number 2297
						1882^{These date from after October 1882. A note, dated 19 October 1882, states “ABNC presents two steel seals ..., reduced to 12 or 15 milimeters diameter, under each seal a combination of 4 numbers is to be printed, arranged in such a manner so as to allow them to be changed. Sufficient indelible ink to be furnished with the stamps for printing 2 to 3 millions of notes, also the necessary press or other apparatus for making the impressions. Send the above.to the Administracion General de Rentas del Estado de Chihuahua, Mexico, Chihuahua, Mexico and invoice to Fred' Probst and Co.” (ABNC)}	includes numbers 2642 to 20848
						1883	includes numbers 23488^{CNBanxico #6818} to 62876
						71102	includes number 7675
						79925	includes number 112079
						17986	includes number 117213
						27803	includes number 119964
						29207	includes number 150892
						33603	includes number 163065
						33704	includes numbers 167053 and 168230
						33805	includes numbers 178336 and 181165
						42302	includes numbers 193515 and 193533
						42282	includes number 200246^{CNBanxico #6736}
						7---2	overprinted BATOPILAS (type 1) includes number 227083
						95664	overprinted BATOPILAS (type 2) includes numbers 245469 and 251450
						549-7	overprinted BATOPILAS (type 3) includes number 265882
						7-4-4	overprinted BATOPILAS (type 4) includes number 289631
							overprinted BATOPILAS includes number 301800
			304500
		304501	320000				stolen in 1885

50c notes

BMC 50c A 579 reverse

Banco Minero Chihuahuense 50c B proof

Date on note	Series	from	to	Presidente	Contador	Admin. date / code
1880	A	00001		Ochoa	Samaniego		includes number 235 with signature of Administración General de Rentas and bar overprint
						1882	includes number 5945
						1883	includes numbers 75778 to 90272^{CNBanxico #6735}
						4501	includes number 96395
						1051	includes number 112418
						17986	overprinted BATOPILAS (type 1) includes number 120229
			200000			16801	includes number 172655
1880	B	00001	50000				may not have been issued

Five hundred sheets of unsigned 50c notes were stolen in 1885 but quickly recovered.

$1 notes

BMC 1 A 17951

BMC 1 A 17951 reverse

BMC 1 A 61698

BMC 1 A 1

BMC 1 A 1 reverse

Date on note	Series	from	to	Presidente	Contador	Gerente	Admin. date / code	Comment
1880	A	00001		Ochoa	Samaniego	-		includes number 8360 with signature of Administración General de Rentas and bar overprint
								includes number 17832^{CNBanxico #6821} without seal or date
							1882	includes numbers 16071 to 22063
							1883 (retrograde}	includes numbers 26516 to 39721
		25855	144000^{A note records 'Legend printed on 118,146 notes. Aug. 1883'}					includes number 61608 overprinted with 'VALE PESOS FUERTES A LA PAR.' thrice
		144001	200000					stolen in 1885
1880	A	00001	80000	Ochoa	Samaniego	E.Creel	8001	pink underprint includes number 8968^{CNBanxico #6826}
1880	A	00001	80000				52000	brown underprint overprinted 'VALE POR PESOS FUERTES A LA PAR' includes number 46919^{CNBanxico #6825}
	B	00001	50000					brown underprint overprinted 'VALE POR PESOS FUERTES A LA PAR'
	C	00001	50000
	B	00001	25000					pink underprint

Batopilas

BMC 25c A 251450

BMC 25c A 265882

BMC 50c A 120229

The 25c and 50c notes are known with a BATOPILAS overprint (in four different varieties (type 1, type 2, type 3 and type 4) and on high serial numbers (25c 227083 - 245469; 50c 120229)).

Type 1
Type 2
Type 3
Type 4

Creel had business connections in Batopilas, being on the board of the Compañía Minera de Batopilas. Francisco Larriva, who underwrote Compañia Minera de Batopilas notes, was an agent of the Banco Minero, so the bank must have provided some sort of banking service in the town.