Mexico 50 Pesos banknote 1937 Banco De Mexico
Obverse: Portrait of General Ignacio Zaragoza, a hero of the Mexican resistance to the French intervention.
Reverse: View of Puebla de Zaragoza, Popocatepetl and Iztaccihuatl Volcanoes.
Printed by American Bank Note Company, ABNC, New York.
Size : 157 x 67 mm - printed from april 21, 1937 to june 26, 1940
Mexican Banknotes - Second emission
Bank of Mexico - Banco De Mexico
Bank of Mexico - Banco De Mexico
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Ignacio Zaragoza Seguín, (March 24, 1829 – September 8, 1862) was a general in the Mexican army, best known for defeating invading French forces at the Battle of Puebla on May 5, 1862 (now celebrated in both the United States and Mexico as the Cinco de Mayo).
Puebla de Zaragoza is located at the Valley of Puebla also known as the Valley of Cuetlaxcoapan, a large valley surrounded on four sides by the mountains and volcanoes of the Trans-Mexican volcanic belt. It is located 40 kilometres (25 miles) east of the Popocatépetl and Iztaccíhuatl volcanoes, giving the residents a magnificent view of their snow-topped peaks.
"Popocatépetl and Iztaccíhuatl" the volcanoes Popocatépetl ("the Smoking Mountain") and Iztaccíhuatl ("white woman" in Nahuatl, sometimes called the Mujer Dormida "sleeping woman" in Spanish) which overlook the Valley of Mexico. The most common variety relates the Nahua romance of the princess Iztaccíhuatl and the warrior Popocatépetl. This tale is recorded in several different versions.