[D66] [🇲🇽] Xochimilco’s endemic axolotl to appear on new 50-peso bill

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An unofficial replica of the new 50-peso banknote that has surfaced on 
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surfaced on social media.


  Xochimilco’s endemic axolotl to appear on new 50-peso bill


    Chinampas, the manmade islands of the area's canals, will also be
    pictured on the note

Published on Thursday, February 20, 2020

The axolotl, a species of salamander endemic to Mexico City’s Lake 
Xochimilco, may be endangered but it recently got some news that could 
give it something to smile about.

The Bank of México (Banxico) announced that the amphibian will grace the 
new series of 50-peso notes to be put into circulation in 2022.

Accompanying the grinning creature will be an ear of corn and an image 
of farmers tending crops on the famous /chinampas/, or manmade islands 
used for agriculture.

The obverse side of the bill will feature an image commemorating the 
founding of Tenochtitlán, the capital of the Aztec empire at the time of 
the arrival of the Spanish.

Two banknotes in the new family of bills planned by Banxico have already 
been put into circulation. The new 500-peso note 
<https://mexiconewsdaily.com/news/juarez-gray-whale-grace-new-banknote/> 
began confusing citizens in August 2018 with its resemblance to the 
20-peso note: blue-colored and donning the face of beloved 19th-century 
president Benito Juárez.

The new 200-peso note 
<https://mexiconewsdaily.com/news/new-200-peso-note-coming-in-september/> 
went into circulation in September of last year. It’s still green, but 
switched out the face of feminist poet Sister Juana Inés de la Cruz for 
those of Mexican independence heroes Miguel Hidalgo and José María Morelos.

But fans of “The Tenth Muse,” as De la Cruz is affectionately called, 
need not worry, for she isn’t gone for good. She will adorn the new 
100-peso note. Opposite her face will be an image of the Monarch 
Butterfly Biosphere Reserve in Michoacán and México state.

The new 1,000-peso note will feature the 33rd president of Mexico, 
Francisco I. Madero, Revolution-era feminist Hermila Galindo and 
revolutionary Carmen Serdán. A jaguar will stalk its reverse side next 
to an image of the ancient Mayan city of Calakmul.

Banxico has plans for a possible 2,000-peso bill, but it will only be 
released if economically necessary. Should it be put into circulation, 
poets Octavio Paz and Rosario Castellanos will be on the bill.

The new family of bills will soon lose a member, as Banxico is planning 
to gradually take the 20-peso note out of circulation and replace it 
with a coin. It will both commemorate Mexican independence and enshrine 
the crocodiles and mangrove forests of the Sian Ka’an Biosphere Reserve 
in Quintana Roo.

/Source: El Universal 
<https://www.eluniversal.com.mx/destinos/el-ajolote-y-xochimilco-saldran-en-el-nuevo-billete-de-50-pesos> 
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