Oh the Bills, They Are a-Changin’
The Central Bank of Mexico (Banxico) announced that the MXN $1,000 banknote will be the next bill to be placed into circulation.
After the addition of the new MXN $500 banknote during the second semester of 2018 and the MXN $200 bill on September 2nd, 2019, the new bill will be released during the first semester of 2020.
Its thematic components will reference the Mexican Revolution. On the front, the image of three relevant figures of the time: Hermila Galindo, Carmen Serdán, and Francisco I. Madero.
On the back, the bill will be decorated with a rainforest, a jaguar, a ceiba, and a zapote representing the country’s flora and fauna; located in the historical heritage of the ancient Mayan city and the protected tropical forests of Calakmul in Campeche.
The two Revolutionary women will be added to the other women, Josefa Ortiz de Domínguez, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, and Frida Kahlo who have been featured on currency.
The first woman to be featured was Josefa Ortiz de Domínguez in 1971, whose image was present with the drawing of an eagle devouring a snake on the MXN $5 bills which were retired in 1993.
Writer Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz has been in bills of different denominations for 41 years until 2019. Banxico detailed that although she will disappear from the MXN $200 banknotes, she will return during the second semester of 2020 as the main image of the new MXN $100 bill.
The portrait of Frida Kahlo appeared along with one of her paintings, in 2010, on the back of the MXN $500 bills. Her image, as well as Diego Rivera’s, was replaced by Benito Juárez’s and the Biosphere Reserve, “El Vizcaíno”, as part of the renovation of banknotes implemented by Banxico since last year.
The MXN $50 and $100 bills will also be updated during the next three years, according to Banxico.
A new MXN $2,000 bill is still being evaluated, although its thematic components have already been chosen. On the front, it would have the image of writer and diplomat Rosario Castellanos.
Article by El Universal, edits made by The San Miguel Herald for clarity and grammar
