Banco de México

Banco de México decided to create an archive to document the history of Mexican currency circulation. Thus, the numismatic department was created at the central bank to take care of a numismatic collection which, built up from a small but remarkable compilation of vice regal coins donated in 1936 by the numismatist and historian Manuel Romero de Terreros, has patiently been augmented throughout the last 60 years.

Currently, the Banco de México Numismatic Collection is considered one of the most important worldwide, not only for its contents of approximately 40,000 coins, banknotes, and medals, but for the quality and rarity of many of them.

This collection is a vivid documentation of Mexican numismatic history. Currency from every historic period is represented, from the early exchange media used in the pre-hispanic world to the most recently minted coins and notes currently in circulation. The collection includes an excellent set of medals and an ever more complete collection of Mexican banknotes. It also holds a large number of specimens of foreign banknotes, the result of exchange programs established years ago with other central banks.

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