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Homer Lee issues

$1 notes

Mercantil Yucatan 1 13734

Mercantil Yucatan 1 13734 reverse

Date of issue Date on note from to Director Cajero Interventor  
   1 February 1892  1 25000informe of interventor Argüelles, 15 January 1903 in Memorias de las Instituciones de Crédito correspondientes a los años 1900 - 1902, vol. I Duarte Aznar Argüelles  
    25001 50000       incinerated on 28 May 1930

 

The bank, on 29 September 1891, ordered 50,000 $1 notes from the Homer Lee Bank Note Company, half to be printed with the date and signatures engraved on the notes and the other half to be printed with these left blank. This second batch of 25,000 notes remained with the printers and passed to the American Bank Note Company when the latter took over the Homer Lee Bank Note Company. They were finally incinerated on 28 May 1930ABNC, folder 194, Banco Mercantil de Yucatán (1906-1933 memo from Foreign Sales Department, 16 April 1930 and cremation certificate, 28 May 1930.

Following its new concession in 1897 the bank withdrew all its $1 notes. By the end of 1902 $1,500 were still outstandinginforme of interventor Argüelles, 15 January 1903 in Memorias de las Instituciones de Crédito correspondientes a los años 1900 - 1902, vol. I. At 31 December 1909 a suspiciously round 1,000 $1 notes (of both the Banco Yucateco and the Banco Mercantil de Yucatán) were still in the public's handsinforme of interventor Argüelles, 1 January 1909 in Memorias de las Instituciones de Crédito, 1909.

$5 notes

Mercantil Yucatan HL 5 specimen

Date of issue Date on note from to Director Cajero Interventor  

 April 1893            

 $10 notes

Mercantil Yucatan HL 10 1

Date of issue Date on note from to Director Cajero Interventor  
   1890  1   Duarte Aznar Argüelles includes number 1926
    5001 10000       mentioned as a separate batch in letter B. Aznar S, 9 March 1893

 $20 notes

Mercantil Yucatan HL 20 specimen

Date of issue Date on note from to Director Cajero Interventor  
               

30 June 1893 2501 5000       mentioned as a separate batch in letter B. Aznar S, 9 March 1893 

 $50 notes

Mercantil Yucatan HL 50 specimen

Date of issue Date on note from to Director Cajero Interventor  

9 April 1890           includes number 851

 $100 notes

Mercantil Yucatan HL 100 specimen

Date of issue Date on note Series from to Director Cajero Interventor  

9 April 1890              
  30 June 1893
  1501 3000 Duarte Aznar Arguëlles mentioned as a separate batch in letter B. Aznar S, 9 March 1893 

 $500 notes

Mercantil Yucatan HL 500 specimen

Date of issue Date on note from to Director Cajero Interventor  


           

30 June 1893  91 180       mentioned as a separate batch in letter B. Aznar S, 9 March 1893 

 $1,000 notes

Mercantil Yucatan HL 1000 specimen

Date of issue Date on note from to Director Cajero Interventor  
               
  30 June 1893  51 100       mentioned as a separate batch in letter B. Aznar S, 9 March 1893

 

The Homer Lee plates were turned over to the American Bank Note Company when it was taken over. They were destroyed in April 1932, at the same time as the ABNC destroyed its own platesABNC.