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1852 - Present

     

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PHILIPPINES Banknotes, 1852 - Present

ISLAS FILIPINAS

ESP colony 27.4.1565; USA terr. 1898; PHL Commonwealth 1935; Rep 4.7.1946
ESP currency until 1898; JPN occupation 3.1.1942 - 14.10.1943; PHL 1852 on

Banco Espaňol Filipino de Isabel 2A

P.A1 - P.A3 Images Needed

Banco Espaňol Filipino

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P.A4 10 Pesos 1.1.1883
 
P.A5 - P.A15 Images Needed

PHILIPPINE REPUBLIC

Insurrection against ESP 23.3.1897-16.12.1897; against USA 12.6.1898 - 16.4.1902 

República Filipina

P.A25 Images Needed
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P.A26  1 Peso L.1898-99
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Back
P.A27 - P.A28 Images Needed

PHILIPPINE TERRITORY

USA territory 13.8.1898 - 15.11.1935

Banco Espaňol Filipino

P.A31 - P.A36 Images Needed
P.1 - P.6 Images Needed

Bank of the Philippine Islands

P.7 - P.9 Images Needed
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P.10  50 Pesos Series 1912
  MS
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Back
P.11 - P.24 Images Needed

Philippine Islands

P.25 - P.38 Images Needed

Philippine National Bank

P.39 - P.59 Images Needed

Philippine Islands

P.60 - P.80 Images Needed

COMMONWEALTH OF THE PHILIPPINES

Commonwealth 15.11.1935 - 3.1.1942
P.81 - P.101 Images Needed

JAPANESE OCCUPATION

Occupation Commonwealth 3.1.1942 - 14.10.1943
P.102 - P.115 Images Needed

REPUBLIC OF PHILIPPINES

Nominal independence 14.10.1943 -17.8.1945

Bangko Sentral Ng Pilipinas

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P.116s1  100 Piso L.29.2.1944
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 Back
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P.UNL,SB.102x  100 Piso L.29.2.1944 *
  WK / JB
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REPUBLIC OF PHILIPPINES

Full independence as Republic of Philippines 4.7.1946

Central Bank of the Philippines

P.117 - P.140 Images Needed
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P.141  500 Pesos L.1949
  ML
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Back

Bangko Sentral

P.142 - P.166 Images Needed

MARCOS INAUGURATION COMMEMORATIVE

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P.167a  10 Piso 30.6.1981  CL1
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Back
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P.167a 10 Piso 30.6.1981  CL1
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Back

MARCOS DEPOSED COMMEMORATIVE ?

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P.UNL(~167a)  10 Piso 30.6.1981(25.2.1986)  CL1
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Back
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P.UNL(~167a)  10 Piso 30.6.1981(25.2.1986) **CL1
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Back
P.168 - P.CS1 Images Needed

BACKGROUNDER
*  This note is a forgery.

The following comments about this note have been provided by Joseph E. Boling, co-author of "World War II Remembered" published by BNR Press, Honorary Director for Life of the International Bank Note Society (IBNS), Treasurer and Archivist of IBNS:

"I have seen blue 'Mihon' markings before (though not on the Sandaang Piso note). But the presence of the beige letters B and S on the back of this note shows that it is a modern replica. Those are intended to represent the watermark, which should be a white S and a black B repeating throughout the paper. This piece is one of many that have been sold to collectors in the west represented as being proof notes from a printer competing for the contract to print these notes, in Japan.

For starters, I am confident that the genuine notes were not printed in Japan, but at the Kolff printing works in Djakarta. By the time these notes were needed, Japan's printing capability was sorely taxed, and no notes were coming from the homeland to SE Asia. Second, no competition was being conducted for printing contracts. Third, if a proof note were to be created for any reason, either genuine paper would be used, or special proof paper would be used, and the watermark would not be faked on it."

Collectors who would like to write to Mr. Boling can do so at this email address: .

We gratefully acknowledge Mr. Boling for providing these important comments and look forward to his next edition of World War II Remembered.




ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
CL1  We gratefully acknowledge collector CL1 for submitting these images.
**  A similar note is for sale from a collector. Please write if interested and we will pass on your interest.
Information about the above overprint note is needed.

WK  We gratefully acknowledge Dutch numismatist William N. Keijzers,
  LANSA 1373, IBNS 8097 for submitting images used in this section.


JB  We gratefully acknowledge Joseph E. Boling for proving information about this forgery.


Morris Lawing World BanknotesML  We gratefully acknowledge Morris Lawing of MORRIS
LAWING WORLD BANKNOTES for his images used in this section.


MS  We gratefully acknowledge Mark Schiffer, eBay dealer bisco5 for providing these images.

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