2021-04-20 Tue

The International Bank Note Society (IBNS) has selected the Banco de Mexico to receive its annual prestigious “Bank Note of the Year Award” for 2020. With well over 100 new banknotes released worldwide during 2020, only 24 were deemed of sufficiently new design to be member nominated.

The Banco de Mexico was both the printer and issuer of this award-winning design banknote, which is part of the bank’s current G Series introduced in 2018. The vertical format note is printed on polymer and features one of Mexico’s national heroines and poet/writer Sor Juana Indes de la Cruz.

The reverse “piece de resistance” image features a temperate forest ecosystem which is known worldwide as the Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve. The design continues to highlight Mexican cultural and historic characteristics with new graphic motifs.

The Mexico successful design in eye-pleasing red combines Hispanic architecture, a famous female Hispanic literary figure and a tribute to the world’s fragile ecosystem. The second and third places were bagged by Royal Bank of Scotland 20 Pound and Bank of England's 20 Pound Note.

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