20 — Twenty Pesos
The artwork
Front: Benito Juárez in three-quarter view, severe in dark frock coat and white collar, engraved in slate grey against a wash of pink and buff. To his left the national arms — the golden eagle on the nopal, serpent in its beak, wreathed in oak and laurel. The place and date of issue run vertically beside it, with the Junta de Gobierno and Cajero Principal signatures below. A clear window at far left carries a stepped-fret motif and the figure 20.
Back: The Hemiciclo a Juárez in the Alameda Central of Mexico City: the white marble semicircle of Doric columns, with Juárez seated at its centre, a winged figure of Glory at his shoulder and the Republic standing beside him bearing a torch. One of the monument's couchant lions fills the left foreground. The Banco de México seal sits above, the large 20 and PESOS at the right, VEINTE across the foot.
In circulation
Mexico's first polymer note, the 20 pesos introduced in 2002 and reprinted through the following decade with fresh dates and series letters, this one made in May 2003. Juárez and his hemicycle stayed on the denomination until the G-series 20 of 2021, which turned instead to Independence and the wetlands of Sian Ka'an.
Details
- CurrencyPeso
- DenominationTwenty Pesos
- Collectedon the Mexico journeys, 2015–2026
- IssuerBanco de México
- SeriesSerie V, dated México, D.F. a 28 May 2003
- SecurityPolymer substrate with clear window bearing a stepped-fret 20
- SignatureTwo: Junta de Gobierno and Cajero Principal
- Dimensions120 × 66 mm