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50 Piso
| Issuer | Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas |
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| Year | 2022-2023 |
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| Printer | Security Plant Complex of the BSP, Quezon City, Philippines (1978-date) |
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| Obverse description | Portrait of President Sergio Osmeña in frontal bust at left centre, flanked by a vignette of the First National Assembly of 1907 at left and a scene of the Leyte Landing at bottom centre. The coat of arms of the Philippines appears at upper centre, with the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas seal at right centre, all set against a guilloche underprint in amber and gold tones. |
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| Reverse lettering | TAAL LAKE MALIPUTO CARANX IGNOBILIS LIMAMPUNG PISO 50 (Translation: Fifty pesos.) |
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The abacá fiber content is not decorative specification — abacá (Musa textilis) has been cultivated in the Philippines for centuries and once dominated global cordage markets, making its inclusion in the banknote substrate a deliberate material choice with deep economic roots in the country's agricultural history. The BSP has incorporated it into the paper blend since at least the New Generation Currency series launched in 2010, partly to reduce dependence on fully imported cotton substrate and partly to support domestic abacá production.
The Security Plant Complex has printed Philippine currency in-house since 1978, one of relatively few central banks in Southeast Asia operating its own full-production facility rather than contracting to De La Rue, Giesecke+Devrient, or similar private printers.