[D66] Bank of México puts new 100-peso banknote into circulation

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Sor Juana is on one side and butterflies on the other of new 100-peso 
banknote.


  Bank of México puts new 100-peso banknote into circulation


    The bill has a vertical format and unique security elements

Published on Friday, November 13, 2020

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A new 100-peso banknote, the third in a new family of bills, was placed 
in circulation Thursday by the central bank.

Featuring the likeness of 17th century feminist poet and nun Sister 
Juana Inés de la Cruz on one side and an image of monarch butterflies in 
a pine, oak and fir forest on the other, the predominantly red-colored 
note is made of polymer rather than paper.

“It has a vertical format and unique security elements,” Bank of México 
Governor Alejandro Díaz de León told a press conference.

Among them: embossing perceptible by touch on the Sor (Sister) Juana 
side, a transparent window similar to those on the existing 20-peso and 
50-peso banknotes, a multicolor denomination and fluorescent ink.

Presenting the new note, Díaz described Sor Juana as an “erudite and 
combative writer who fought to overcome the obstacles that limited 
women’s access to culture.”

She became “one of the most important protagonists of Spanish-American 
literature in the 17th century,” he said.

While speaking about the reverse side of the note, Díaz said that 
forests cover 16% of Mexico’s territory and play an important role in 
supporting Mexico’s biodiversity. The monarch butterflies featured on 
the note migrate to forests in México state and Michoacán 
<https://mexiconewsdaily.com/news/butterfly-photographed-in-guanajuato-had-been-tagged-in-iowa/> 
from Canada and the United States every year.

The new 100-peso note replaces a paper bill featuring the likeness of 
Nezahualcóyotl, a ruler of the city-state of Texcoco in the 15th 
century. That note remains legal tender but will be gradually withdrawn 
from circulation.

The release of the new banknote comes two years after a new 500-peso 
bill 
<https://mexiconewsdaily.com/news/juarez-gray-whale-grace-new-banknote/> 
featuring images of former president Benito Juárez and a gray whale 
entered circulation and one year after a new 200-peso note 
<https://mexiconewsdaily.com/news/new-200-peso-note-coming-in-september/> 
was introduced.

The face of Sor Juana appeared on the old 200-peso note but was removed 
in favor of independence heroes Miguel Hidalgo and José Morelos on the 
new one. The other side of the new 200-peso bill features an eagle 
flying over the Sonoran desert.

The fourth and fifth members of the new family of notes will be 
1,000-peso and 50-peso bills.

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.

The axolotl, a species of salamander endemic to Mexico City’s Lake 
Xochimilco, will be featured on one side of the new 50-peso bill 
<https://mexiconewsdaily.com/news/axolotl-to-appear-on-new-50-peso-bill/>, 
while gracing the other will be an image commemorating the founding of 
Tenochtitlán, the capital of the Aztec empire at the time of the Spanish 
conquest.

/Source: El Financiero 
<https://www.elfinanciero.com.mx/nacional/este-es-el-nuevo-billete-de-100-pesos-sale-nezahualcoyotl-entra-sor-juana-ines-de-la-cruz> 
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