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 Ang Bagong Lipunan
Series 1985-2013
The Ang Bagong Lipunan Series (literally,
”The New Society Series") is the name used
to refer to Philippine banknotes issued by
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the Central Bank of the Philippines. It was
succeeded by the New Design series of
banknotes. 6

New Generation
Currency (Current)
In 2009, Bangko Sentral ng
Pilipinas (BSP) announced that it
has launched a massive redesign
for current banknotes and coins to
further enhance security features
Modern Currencies and improve durability.
1946
The English Series were Philippine banknotes that
circulated from 1951 to 1971. It was the only banknote 4
series of the Philippine peso to use English as its
language. The Pilipino Series banknotes is the name
used to refer to Philippine banknotes issued by the 
Central Bank of the Philippines from 1969 to 1973,
during the term of President Ferdinand Marcos. 

“Guerilla Pesos”
(Emergency
“Mickey Circulating Notes)
Mouse
Money
(Fiat Peso)

American Colonial Period

1901–1946 2
After the United States took control of the
Philippines, the United States Congress 
 
passed the Philippine Coinage Act of 1903

3 Commonwealth Period
1935–1946
The “Mickey Mouse Money (Fiat Peso) and the
“Guerilla Pesos” (Emergency Circulating Notes)
(second picture) during the World War II in the 
Philippines, the occupying Japanese government-
issued fiat currency in several denominations;
this is known as the Japanese government-issued
Philippine fiat peso.
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First Philippine Republic

1898–1899
Asserting its independence after the 
Philippine Declaration of Independence on June
12, 1898, the República Filipina (Philippine
Republic) under General Emilio Aguinaldo issued
its own coins and paper currency backed by the
country's natural resources. 
 New Design Series 
The Peso coins are minted in the Security
Plant Complex of the Philippines. At
present, coins of 1, 5, 10 and 25 cents are 5
in use and those of 1, 2, 5 and 10 pesos are
in use. 

New Generation
Currency (Current)
On 26 March 2018, the BSP
Commonwealth Period released the New Generation
(1935–1946)  Currency (NGC) Coin Series
1944 Philippines five Centavo coin   comprised of the 10-Piso, 5-Piso,
4 1-Piso, 25-Sentimo, 5-Sentimo and
the 1-Sentimo into circulation. 
 

Silver 50-centime
coin issued 1864
until the1890s 

Silver 50
centimo Isabel
II issued 1864

Spanish Era
(1565–1898)  
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Philippine_money
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The earliest silver coins brought in by the galleons
from Mexico and other Spanish colonies were in
the form of roughly cut cobs or macuquinas. While
3 American Colonial Period
the second one is spanish gold onza or 8 escudo
coin imported from Spanish Latin America and (1901–1946) 
valued at 16 silver pesos. 
US Administration 50 centavos silver
coin minted in San Francisco in 1918. 

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Early Philippine History
(c. 900 AD–1565) 
The first picture is a Piloncitos were used in Tondo, Namayan and
Rajahnate of Butuan in present-day Philippines. Piloncitos are tiny
engraved bead-like gold bits unearthed in the Philippines. They are the first
recognized coinage in the Philippines circulated between the 9th and 12th
centuries. Second picture is the Barter Rings the early Filipinos also traded
along with it, which is gold ring-like ingots. These barter rings are bigger
than a doughnut in size and are made of nearly pure gold.