includes articles on French India Banknotes, When Governments Counterfeit, Bolsheviks in Your Wallet, The Secret Heart of the Matter and tributes to Guido Crapanzano and Vincent Duggleby
Nominated by Marco de Silva Freire, IBNS Member 12487
Note
B714 (PNL): 50 pesos (US$2.60)
Predominant Colour(s)
Purple
Front (vertical)
Spanish text; denomination in gold-to-green SPARK; city of Tenochtitlan, from Diego Rivera’s mural, ““La Gran Tenochtitlan;” eagle perched on a cactus with “Atl tlachinolli” in its beak, from fragment of monolith known as “Teocalli de la Guerra Sagrada” (pyramid surmounted by the temple of the sacred war)
Back (vertical)
Spanish text; ecosystem of rivers and lakes; Mexican salamander (ajolote); corn field within the landscape of Xochimilco, Mexico City
