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2 Piso Papal Visit
| Issuer | Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas |
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| Year | 1981 |
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| Currency | Piso (1967-date) |
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| Obverse description | Portrait bust of José Rizal facing right at left, with a black commemorative overprint in honour of the papal visit of Pope John Paul II, February 17–22, 1981. The Bangko Sentral seal appears at lower right, set against a guilloche underprint. All inscriptions are rendered in Pilipino. |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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Issued to mark Pope John Paul II's February 1981 visit to the Philippines, this note was produced as a commemorative circulation piece rather than a purely collectible item — it entered general use alongside the regular 2 Piso series. Giesecke & Devrient had been printing Philippine currency since the 1970s, and their Leipzig facility handled the run. The papal visit itself was the second by a sitting pope to the Philippines; Paul VI had visited in 1970, making the country unusual in having received two pontiffs within a single decade.