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100 Piso Masons
| Issuer | Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas |
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| Year | 2012 |
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| Size | 160 × 66 mm |
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| Obverse description | Portrait vignette of Manuel A. Roxas at left centre, with the flags of the United States and the Philippines at right, all executed in intaglio against a multicoloured guilloche underprint. A commemorative overprint for the Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons of the Philippines is applied at left. Filipino inscriptions run along the upper and lower margins, with the denomination stated in full at lower right. |
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| Reverse lettering | BANGKO SENTRAL NG PILIPINAS SANDAANG PISO (Translation: Central Bank of the Philippines One hundred pesos) |
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The "Masons" designation — informal but widely used among Philippine collectors — refers to the Masonic Temple vignette that appeared on earlier 100-piso designs, though by this series the imagery had shifted. The P#213A belongs to the New Generation Currency series introduced by the BSP starting in 2010, a redesign driven partly by counterfeiting concerns and partly by a push to standardize security features across denominations after several high-profile forgery cases in the mid-2000s.
Printed entirely in-house at the BSP's Security Plant Complex in Quebon City — one of the few central banks in Southeast Asia to maintain fully domestic banknote production — this series incorporated intaglio printing, color-shifting ink, and a windowed security thread.