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200 Pesos Fuertes
| Issuer | Banco Español Filipino |
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| Year | 1883 |
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| Value | 200 Pesos Fuertes |
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| Obverse lettering | EL BANCO ESPAÑOL FILIPINO à la presentacion de este billete pagará al portador DOSCIENTOS pesos fuertes. 1.º Enero 1883. Manila. 1.º Enero 1883. El Director El Tenedor de libros El Cajero SPECIMEN P.F. 200 Nº 0001 Nº 2150 |
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| Protection description | The word SPECIMEN is perforated through the note as a cancellation on this trial example. |
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The Banco Español Filipino was the only bank of issue in the Philippine archipelago during the Spanish colonial period, established by royal decree in 1851 and modeled explicitly on the Banco de Isabel II in Cuba. Its high-denomination notes circulated almost exclusively among the Manila merchant class and colonial administration — working populations never saw them. The 200 Pesos Fuertes was the largest denomination the bank produced, which alone limits surviving examples to a narrow institutional channel.
The perforated cancellation indicates this note was formally withdrawn and voided by the bank rather than lost to circulation. Cancelled examples from this series occasionally retain full paper integrity precisely because they never circulated — the perforation was the exit point, not wear.