Book-keeping schools
El Banco Zaragoza
This was an all-female book-keeping school, run by Anastasio Treviño Martínez (1870-1943), which used its own “currency” in lessons. Treviño Martínez founded his commercial academy, which he called General Zaragoza, in 1901 and later in 1921 he established the Women’s Industrial School Pablo Livas. Later he was appointed treasurer general of the Nuevo León state treasury and served temporarily as governor of Nuevo León from 4 October to 25 December 1923.
The notes were printed in Spanish and English from one peso or dollar to 1,000 pesos or dollars. Some had a portrait ( of Treviño Martínez?) on the back or front along with either a printed name in block letters or a printed signature. Some notes were overprinted in ORO, GOLD or PLATA.
There were several series.
Series 1
The first was issued with Spanish text as “EL BANCO ZARAGOZA” with a date of 15 September 1905
Series 2
The second was dated 15 September 1907
Series 3
The third, also dated 15 September 1907, was with English text.
Series 4
Finally, a series as “EL BANCO ZARAGOZA” dated Monterrey, N. L. 1924.
The following table shows the various known denominations, with their corresponding series letter. It is obvious that the school’s owner used his own name for the sequence.
| Date | 25c | $1 | $5 | $10 | $20 | $50 | $100 | $500 | $1000 | |
| 15 Sep 1905 | Printer’s imprint: PLATA | E | I | O | A | |||||
| Printer’s imprint: ORO | R | V | I | Ñ | O | |||||
| 15 Sep 1907 | No printer’s imprint | A | N | A | S | T | A | S | I | O |
| English text with GOLD | A | T | R | V | N | |||||
| 1924 | A | L |
El Banco Juárez
A $100 note dated February 1917, with the name of Macario Pérez as Interventor del Gobierno and Jesús María Martínez as Consejero.
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On 11 February 1907, he was appointed director of the Colegio Juárez, with the support of the governor of the state, General Bernardo Reyes. In 1918 Pérez founded the Justo Sierra School, an institute that reflected liberal education and the practice of values and discipline, for which he was director for eight years. In 1927 he founded the "Pedro Noriega" Institute. On several occasions he was a professor at the Colegio Civil del Estado (holding chairs of Spanish and General History) and at the Escuela Normal of Monterrey (where he taught social and natural sciences). He died on 27 January 1939 in the city of Monterrey. |
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| Jesús María Martínez |
Macario Pérez Cázares was born on 10 March 1882, in Bustamante, Nuevo León. At the end of his studies, he was assigned to the Bustamante School in 1900, where he was a teacher in the second year of primary school, and then worked in schools in Monterrey, Monclova, and Linares. He returned to Monterrey in August 1996 as a sixth-grade teacher at the Porfirio Díaz School and a professor at the Monterrey Commercial School.
El Banco Mexicano
Another book-keeping school with an issue dated September 1933.
