• NO U.S. TARIFFS TO PAY: Customers in the United States: in 2025, President Trump has signed orders (a) imposing tariffs (taxes) on collectible banknotes and coins (HTC 9705) sent from other countries, from 10% up to 50% AND (b) he ordered the post office to assess tariffs on ALL incoming packages, even those of low value. (c) To make matters worse, fees often around $30 are added on for processing, turning a $20 order into a $50-$60 cost. From our perspective, this is greatly harming small businesses both here in the U.S. and our close colleagues and neighbors in Canada and around the world. However:
• WE ARE A U.S. SELLER in Washington, D.C., so as a U.S. customer YOU PAY ONLY THE PURCHASE PRICE AND POSTAGE that eBay shows you. No surprises when your package arrives, no 10%-50% tax to be paid, no $30 administration fee, just to get what you ALREADY paid for!
• Customers outside the U.S. are not affected and we ship daily to satisfied customers in  Australia, Canada, all over Europe, Hong Kong, Israel, Japan, New Zealand, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, Bangladesh, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Iceland, Kuwait, Malaysia, Panama, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and Sri Lanka.
  

• You will receive the exact banknote in the pictures, with (of course) the exact same serial number shown
• Return the banknote within 14 days of receipt for your money back if not satisfied.

• Color: purple
• Front: Tenochtitlan, the Aztec capital, now the site of Mexico City. The eagle with a snake in its beak, atop a cactus: the sign to the Aztecs that they should build their capital in this place.
• Commemorative edition, text under the BANCO DE MÉXICO logo states "100th anniversary of the BANCO DE MÉXICO" (the central bank, equivalent to the U.S. Federal Reserve)
• Back: Axolotl (the Náhuatl term, in Spanish: ajolote) amphibian in Lake Xochimilco, Mexico City. 

• Tenochtitlan, founded in 1325 on an island in Lake Texcoco, was the political and ceremonial heart of the Mexica (Aztec) world and one of the most sophisticated urban environments of the pre-Columbian Americas. Built on a matrix of causeways, canals, and chinampa districts, it housed temples, palaces, markets, and densely planned neighborhoods connected by a highly efficient water-transport system. At its height, it was a metropolis of perhaps 200,000 people—larger than many European capitals of its era—anchored around the Templo Mayor and governed through a fusion of military authority, tribute networks, and sacral kingship. When the Spanish arrived in 1519–1521, they encountered a city whose scale, hydraulics, and urban engineering were so advanced that chroniclers compared it to Venice; its destruction and subsequent reconstruction as Mexico City reshaped the entire basin.

• Lake Xochimilco is the last surviving remnant of the interconnected lacustrine system that once filled the Valley of Mexico, a patchwork of freshwater and brackish lakes that supported the hydraulic economy of the Mexica and their neighbors. Located at the southern edge of modern Mexico City, Xochimilco preserves portions of the ancient chinampa networks—rectangular, artificially built agricultural islands stabilized by willow trees and fed by controlled canal water. Although much reduced from its pre-Hispanic expanse, the lake remains a cultural and ecological holdout, where traditional agriculture, local communities, and urban pressures coexist in a delicate balance. Its canals, now a UNESCO World Heritage element, retain the last working fragments of the valley’s pre-colonial hydro-engineering.

• The axolotl (Náhuatl) also known in Spanish as the ajolote (Ambystoma mexicanum) is an iconic neotenic salamander native to the ancient lake system of the Valley of Mexico, especially the cold, spring-fed canals of Xochimilco. Unlike most amphibians, it retains its larval form—external gills, aquatic limbs, and juvenile morphology—throughout adulthood, a biological quirk linked to its stable, cool-water environment. Revered in Mexica mythology as a form of the god Xólotl and respected today as a symbol of Mexico’s endangered biodiversity, the axolotl is famed for its extraordinary regenerative abilities, able to regrow limbs, organs, and sections of its spinal cord. Urban encroachment, water pollution, and invasive species have pushed wild populations to the brink, making Xochimilco’s remaining canals both a last refuge and a focus of urgent conservation efforts.

Combined Shipping: Add all items to your cart and pay together. If you make separate transactions but we ship them together, you may request a shipping refund. $0.40 is deducted for each transaction (except for the first one) to cover eBay per-transaction fees.

Shipping outside the United States:

• We default to an inexpensive option to make this possible for only about 2 dollars: untracked standard airmail (a personal letter) without customs declaration to many countries.
• Delivery to Australia/dependencies, Canada, Europe (except BG/BH/BY/HR/MD/ME/MK/RU/UA) and dependencies (UK B.O.T.-CI-IM, FR C.O.M., AW BQ CU FO GL SJ SX), Hong Kong, Israel/Palestine, Japan, New Zealand/dependencies, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan ROC: 1 to 3 weeks.
• Delivery to Bangladesh, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Iceland, Kuwait, Malaysia, Panama, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and Sri Lanka: 1 to 5 weeks (acknowledge delay when ordering).
• No untracked shipping to any other country not listed above, notably Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Bahrain, Brazil, Croatia, India, Kazakhstan, Malaysia, Mexico, or the United Arab Emirates where, regrettably, our ordinary airmail letters have been lost or stolen too often.
• Tracked service available via eBay International Shipping or USPS First Class International Package (we charge our cost, 15 U.S. dollars ).

Returns: 14 days from receipt.

Authenticity: All banknotes are guaranteed genuine, sourced from reliable suppliers and verified.

• UNC (Uncirculated): No signs of circulation; crisp, flat, full sheen. A faint half-moon from the security thread may appear.
  
• AU (About Uncirculated): Nearly perfect; one light fold or handling mark only. Crisp and colorful.
• XF / EF (Extremely Fine): Crisp with minor handling; a few folds or one firm crease. Bright and firm.
• VF Plus: Slightly better than average VF; fewer folds or stains; nearly XF.
• VF (Very Fine): Several folds, light wear; paper firm; corners lightly worn.
• VF Minus: More folds, mild soiling or humidity spots, tiny edge tears (? 5 mm). Still intact.
• F (Fine): Well-used, many creases; paper soft; visible soiling.
• VG (Very Good / Heavily Circulated): Limp and worn with heavy creasing, edge wear, possible small tears; design may fade.