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50 Pesos Philippines
| Issuer | Treasury of the Philippines |
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| Year | 1936 |
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| Currency | Peso (1857-1967) |
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| Reverse description | Entirely printed in red, the reverse is dominated by a centrally placed oval vignette bearing the coat of arms of the Philippines, surrounded by elaborate intaglio scrollwork and acanthus-leaf guilloche ornaments radiating symmetrically across the field. Denomination numerals '50' appear in each corner, and the country name and value inscriptions are carried in bold lettering along the upper and lower borders. |
| Reverse lettering | FIFTY PESOS PHILIPPINES FIFTY PESOS PHILIPPINES 50 |
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The Treasury of the Philippines series printed by the Bureau of Engraving and Printing in Washington reflects the Commonwealth period, when the Philippines operated under U.S. tutelage following the 1935 Tydings-McDuffie Act transition. These notes were issued under joint Philippine-American fiscal authority, with the Treasury of the Philippines nominally responsible but the monetary architecture still tightly controlled from Washington.
The 1936 series had a short effective life. Japanese occupation from 1942 onward rendered Commonwealth currency functionally obsolete, and the postwar liberation brought a separate currency reorganization. Surviving examples in any grade above heavily circulated are harder to source than the catalog frequency suggests.