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25 Centavos Juan Luna, pattern
| Issuer | Philippines |
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| Year | 1967 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Obverse description | Central device depicting a stylized eight-rayed sun containing a triangle enclosing the Baybayin character for the letter 'Ka', adapted as a heraldic emblem of the Philippine national flag. The design is rendered in low relief against a flat field. The circular legend REPUBLIKA NG PILIPINAS arcs along the upper periphery, flanked by two small five-pointed stars at the lower left and right. The date 1967 appears in the lower exergual area between the two stars. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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This 1967 pattern was produced as part of the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas's effort to redesign Philippine coinage around nationalist figures following the country's postwar reassertion of cultural identity. Juan Luna, the 19th-century painter whose 1884 canvas Spoliarium won a gold medal at the Madrid Exposition of Fine Arts, was a deliberate choice — his prominence in the ilustrado movement made him politically legible as a hero untangled from American colonial iconography. The copper composition was ultimately rejected for circulating coinage at this denomination.