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10 Pesos
| Issuer | Banco de Oriente |
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| Year | 1884-1900 |
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| Reference(s) | P#S699 |
| Obverse description | Green-tinted note with ornate guilloche cornerpieces and a central vignette of a riverside or coastal landscape with cattle. Denomination numeral '10' appears in large counters at left and right flanking the vignette. Text panel below carries the promise-to-pay legend, with place and date of issue at lower left and two manuscript signatures at bottom. |
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| Reverse lettering | BANCO DE ORIENTE 10 10 |
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Banco de Oriente was one of several provincial banks chartered in the Philippines under Spanish colonial authority during the final years of that administration. American Bank Note Company held a near-monopoly on security printing for Philippine private banks in this period, supplying plates to institutions that often lacked the volume to justify the cost — which is partly why so many of these provincial issues survive in small numbers regardless of denomination.
The sixteen-year window on this issue reflects either a prolonged authorization period or uncertainty about surviving redemption records. The 1898 Spanish-American War effectively ended the banking regime under which Banco de Oriente operated, making late-date examples from the final years of the range considerably harder to place with confidence.