Mexico’s 100 Peso Wins IBNS Banknote of the Year Award

Mexico’s new 100 peso banknote has beaten more than 100 other candidates to win the prestigious Banknote of the Year Award for 2020, awarded by the International Bank Note Society (IBNS).

Banco de México was both the printer and issuer of the award-winning note. The vertical format note, produced on CCL Secure’s GUARDIAN™ polymer, maintains the themes of history and evolution of the Mexican nation on the front, and the wealth of its natural environment on the reverse that are being applied to all notes in the G series (the 200, 500 and 1,000 denominations of which have also been issued).

The 17th century novo-Hispanic writer and poet Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz appears on the front, while the theme on the reverse is the temperate forest ecosystem, represented by the pine, oak and oymel trees of the Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve, recognised as a natural world heritage site by UNESCO.