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10 Pesos Banco Español Filipino
| Issuer | Banco Español Filipino |
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| Year | 1908 |
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| Value | 10 Pesos |
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| Reverse description | Printed entirely in brown, the reverse presents a bold central text panel within an elaborate guilloche border, with the denomination numeral '10' in ornate cartouches at each corner decorated with floral and foliate motifs. A scalloped medallion at the lower centre repeats the denomination. The overall design is typographic in character, with no pictorial vignette. |
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| Variants | P#2a - signature at left: Julian Serrano P#2b - signature at left: J. Serrano |
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The Banco Español Filipino had been the Philippines' only bank of issue since 1851, a Spanish colonial institution that survived the American takeover of 1898 remarkably intact. By 1908 it was operating under American administration but still carrying its old name — the formal rename to Bank of the Philippine Islands wouldn't come until 1912. Contracting the Bureau of Engraving and Printing in Washington to produce this series was a deliberate signal: the new colonial authority bringing its own production standards to bear on an institution it had inherited rather than built.
The BEP's involvement here is early for Philippine currency work, and the notes printed under this arrangement are notably scarcer than later BEP-produced Philippine issues.