Mexico (1936-1969)

This serie of banknotes belongs to the period in which Lázaro Cárdenas del Río promoted education, the Agrarian Reform and the nationalization of petroleum, attenuating these measures his successor Manuel Ávila Camacho; In the 1950s there was the economic development called Mexican Miracle, which increased infrastructure and public services and social protection and demanded greater political freedoms, for example by the student movement of 1968 and in the various guerrillas that appeared in various parts of the country. country. There are banknotes of 1 peso, 5 pesos, 10 pesos, 20 pesos, 50 pesos, 100 pesos, 500 pesos, 1,000 pesos and 10,000 pesos.

1 peso (un peso) 

This banknote worth 1 peso was first circulated in January the 25th 1961. 25 de enero de 1961. n the main side it can be seen the Aztec calendar stone, monolithic disk of the 13th century with inscriptions alluding to the Mexica cosmogony, known as the Aztec calendar. In its left and right appears the written value of the banknote, two 10s and the name of the National Bank in Spanish (Banco de México). The rest of the banknote is fulled with four 1's on the corners and decorative elements too.

On the other side of the banknote appears el The Angel of Independence (which consists of a Winged Victory with a laurel wreath), built in 1910 in Mexico City. In its left and right there are two 1's, the written value of the banknote is in the lower part and the name of the National Bank in the upper one, fulled with two stamps and decorative elements. This banknote has communist stars as digital watermark. The size of this banknote is 15.7 cm x 6.7 cm.