{"product_id":"mexico-p139-100-pesos-commemorative-2024-b724-w139-27jun-20245-sig-jehc-imp","title":"Mexico P139—2025 Commemorative of P134—100 Pesos 2024.06.27 UNC B724 W139 JEHC\/IMP Butterflies","description":"\u003cp\u003eOne of the most visually striking commemorative banknotes of the 2020s — Mexico's \u003cstrong\u003e100 Pesos 100th Anniversary\u003c\/strong\u003e note celebrates a century of the \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bank_of_Mexico\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eBanco de México\u003c\/a\u003e with a vertical polymer design pairing the country's greatest literary mind with one of the world's most spectacular natural phenomena.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ciframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nL0ScmMt08U?si=ycvWo9lzyINO5Px8\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eFront\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eColor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Red and blue on multicolor underprint; vertical layout\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sor_Juana_In%C3%A9s_de_la_Cruz\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eSor Juana Inés de la Cruz\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e, poet and writer — lower right\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/San_Ildefonso_College\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eColegio de San Ildefonso\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e, Mexico City — lower left\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eBank of Mexico gate\u003c\/strong\u003e, two butterflies, and ribbon showing “100” four times — split across both edges as a perfect match device\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eSecurity strip:\u003c\/strong\u003e “100 PESOS” and butterflies, visible from both sides\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eVariable color ink\u003c\/strong\u003e on lower-left denomination numeral (tilt effect)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eSignatures:\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jonathan_Heath\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eJonathan Ernest Heath Constable\u003c\/a\u003e (Deputy Governor) \u0026amp; Isabel Morales Pasantes (Main Cashier)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDate:\u003c\/strong\u003e Ciudad de México, 27 Jun. 2024\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eBack\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eColor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Red and black on multicolor underprint; vertical layout\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Monarch_Butterfly_Biosphere_Reserve\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eMonarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e — two butterflies on a flower, many others in flight against a temperate forest background\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eUNESCO World Heritage\u003c\/strong\u003e natural site (States of México and Michoacán de Ocampo)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eOther Characteristics\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eCatalog numbers:\u003c\/strong\u003e TBB B724; Numista N#482764; W139 2024(5)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eWatermark:\u003c\/strong\u003e Transparent window on Bank of Mexico gate, with butterfly and raised “100”\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eComposition:\u003c\/strong\u003e Polymer (Safeguard® \/ Guardian™)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eSize:\u003c\/strong\u003e 132 × 65 mm\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIssuing entity:\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bank_of_Mexico\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eBanco de México\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePrinter:\u003c\/strong\u003e Banco de México, Mexico City\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eSignatures:\u003c\/strong\u003e Jonathan Ernest Heath Constable (Deputy Gov.) \u0026amp; \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Isabel_Morales_Pasantes\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eIsabel Morales Pasantes\u003c\/a\u003e (Main Cashier)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eCurrency:\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mexican_peso\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eNew Peso\u003c\/a\u003e (1992–date)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eThe Nun Who Outthought Everyone\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sor_Juana_In%C3%A9s_de_la_Cruz\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSor Juana Inés de la Cruz\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e (\u003cstrong\u003e1648–1695\u003c\/strong\u003e) was born Juana de Asbaje y Ramírez in colonial New Spain — illegitimate, self-taught, and reading Latin by age three. By her teens she had mastered theology, philosophy, mathematics, and music well enough to stump the viceregal court's finest scholars in a public examination. Unable to attend university (women were barred), she entered a convent at \u003cstrong\u003e19\u003c\/strong\u003e — not out of piety, she later admitted, but because it was the only institution that would give her a library and time to think. From her cell at the \u003cstrong\u003eConvent of San Jerónimo\u003c\/strong\u003e in Mexico City, she produced poetry, plays, and philosophical essays that are now considered the first great works of Latin American literature. When the Church pressured her to stop writing and “return to her devotions,” she wrote a devastating defense of women's right to education and intellectual life. She died nursing plague victims at \u003cstrong\u003e46\u003c\/strong\u003e. The \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/San_Ildefonso_College\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eColegio de San Ildefonso\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e on this note — one of colonial Mexico's great centers of learning — represents the world of scholarship she was denied and conquered anyway.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eA Hundred Million Monarchs\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEvery autumn, up to \u003cstrong\u003ea billion\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Monarch_butterfly\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003emonarch butterflies\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e leave their summer breeding grounds across the United States and Canada and fly up to \u003cstrong\u003e4,500 km\u003c\/strong\u003e south to a cluster of oyamel fir forests in the mountains of \u003cstrong\u003eMichoacán and the State of México\u003c\/strong\u003e — the same forests depicted on the reverse of this note. No individual butterfly makes the round trip; it takes \u003cstrong\u003ethree to four generations\u003c\/strong\u003e to complete the cycle, yet each generation navigates back to the same trees their great-grandparents left. Scientists still do not fully understand how. The \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Monarch_Butterfly_Biosphere_Reserve\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMonarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e was designated a \u003cstrong\u003eUNESCO World Heritage Site\u003c\/strong\u003e in 2008. When the butterflies arrive in November, the forests turn orange. The sound of their wings, locals say, is like rain.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eA Century of the Banco de México\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bank_of_Mexico\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBanco de México\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e was founded on \u003cstrong\u003e1 September 1925\u003c\/strong\u003e, replacing a chaotic patchwork of private and state banks that had issued their own competing currencies during and after the \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mexican_Revolution\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eMexican Revolution\u003c\/a\u003e. This commemorative note — issued \u003cstrong\u003e27 June 2024\u003c\/strong\u003e and dated for the centennial year — is an overprint on the standard P-134 series, with the Bank's anniversary logo added to the obverse. It was issued in multiple signature varieties as different members of the \u003cem\u003eJunta de Gobierno\u003c\/em\u003e rotated through; this listing is the \u003cstrong\u003eW139 2024(5)\u003c\/strong\u003e variety, signed by Deputy Governor \u003cstrong\u003eJonathan Heath Constable\u003c\/strong\u003e and Main Cashier \u003cstrong\u003eIsabel Morales Pasantes\u003c\/strong\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eAbout Mexico\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eOrigin of name:\u003c\/strong\u003e From the \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nahuatl\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eNahuatl\u003c\/a\u003e \u003cem\u003eMēxihco\u003c\/em\u003e — believed to derive from \u003cem\u003eMēxtli\u003c\/em\u003e, an alternate name for the Aztec god \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Huitzilopochtli\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eHuitzilopochtli\u003c\/a\u003e, combined with \u003cem\u003e-co\u003c\/em\u003e (place of). The exact etymology remains debated.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eCapital:\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mexico_City\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eMexico City\u003c\/a\u003e (city pop. ~9.2 million; metro pop. ~22 million)\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eOrigin of name:\u003c\/strong\u003e Named after the \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mexica\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eMexica\u003c\/a\u003e people (the Aztecs), who founded \u003cem\u003eTenochtitlan\u003c\/em\u003e on the same site in 1325.\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePopulation:\u003c\/strong\u003e ~129 million (UN 2023) — comparable to Japan or the Philippines\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eArea:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1,964,375 km² (758,449 mi²) — roughly three times the size of Texas\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eGDP per capita (\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Purchasing_power_parity\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ePPP\u003c\/a\u003e):\u003c\/strong\u003e ~$23,000 (IMF 2023)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eMain exports:\u003c\/strong\u003e Vehicles and auto parts, electronics, crude oil, medical devices, beer\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eBorders:\u003c\/strong\u003e United States (north); Guatemala and Belize (south)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eEthnicities:\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mestizo\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eMestizo\u003c\/a\u003e (~62%), \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Indigenous_peoples_of_Mexico\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eIndigenous\u003c\/a\u003e (~21%), European-descent (~10%), Afro-Mexican and other (~7%)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eMemberships:\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_Nations\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eUN\u003c\/a\u003e (1945); \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/USMCA\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eUSMCA\u003c\/a\u003e; \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/G20\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eG20\u003c\/a\u003e; \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/OECD\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eOECD\u003c\/a\u003e (1994)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eSovereignty:\u003c\/strong\u003e Independence from Spain declared September 16, 1810; recognized 1821\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eMexico Unfiltered\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eMexico is the world's largest producer of avocados, limes, and chili peppers\u003c\/strong\u003e — and the birthplace of chocolate, tomatoes, and corn as cultivated crops.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eMexico City is sinking\u003c\/strong\u003e — built on the drained bed of Lake Texcoco, parts of the city are subsiding at up to 50 cm per year as groundwater is extracted from the clay beneath it.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eMexico has the world's largest number of UNESCO World Heritage Sites in the Americas\u003c\/strong\u003e — 35 in total, spanning pre-Columbian ruins, colonial cities, and natural reserves including this note's Monarch Butterfly Reserve.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eThe Mexican Revolution (1910–1920) killed an estimated 1–2 million people\u003c\/strong\u003e and produced one of the world's first post-revolutionary constitutions (1917), which still governs the country today.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNearshoring is transforming northern Mexico\u003c\/strong\u003e — as companies relocate supply chains from Asia, cities like Monterrey and Juárez are experiencing the fastest industrial growth in the country's modern history.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOwn this centennial note and hold a hundred years of Mexican monetary history in your hands — a self-taught nun who rewrote the rules of colonial literature on one side, and a billion butterflies navigating by starlight on the other.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"World Money Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52724777517367,"sku":"MX139-2024(5)JEHC\/IMP-U","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0969\/7165\/3431\/files\/Screenshot_2026-07-25_at_15.25.45.png?v=1785007577","url":"https:\/\/worldmoneystore.com\/products\/mexico-p139-100-pesos-commemorative-2024-b724-w139-27jun-20245-sig-jehc-imp","provider":"World Money Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}