A old 20 peso billissued by the Bank of Mexico (Banxico), has caused a sensation on digital platforms such as Free marketso much so that collectors are willing to pay up to 85 thousand pesos for it.
This paper money is part of the Family D of Banxico banknotes, which was the last edition of the design with the portrait of the Benemérito de las Américas, Benito Juárez, which was launched on cotton paper before it was changed to polymer, as it still is nowadays.
This piece was put into circulation on January 1, 1996, but is currently in the process of being withdrawn. However, it is still useful for your payments, but when they arrive at the credit institutions they will be withdrawn so as not to deliver them again and replace them with more up-to-date copies.
Despite the above, the electronic commerce platform, Mercado Libre México, offers the specimen at a much higher price than its denomination.
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This happens when sellers publish this type of advertisement and hope that a collector who wants to complete their collection of coins and bills is willing to pay that amount of money, although not necessarily someone will or can pay thousands of pesos, taking into account the others. alternatives within the market, even on the same sales site.
On the other hand, in case you have a ticket like the one in the advertisement that we have just observed and you want to sell it, before making your own publication at the same price, check with a specialist from a numismatic house so that they can advise you better about the amounts that are handled in the collectors’ market and you put an appropriate number on it.
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