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50 Piso Central Banking
| Issuer | Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas |
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| Year | 2009 |
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| Currency | Piso (1967-date) |
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| Obverse lettering | REPUBLIKA NG PILIPINAS 50 ANG SALAPING ITO AY BAYARIN NG BANGKO SENTRAL AT PINANANAGUTAN NG REPUBLIKA NG PILIPINAS 1949-2009 CENTRAL BANKING IN THE PHILIPPINES LIMAMPUNG PISO (Translation: Republic of the Philippines This bill is a debt of the central bank and a responsibility of the Republic of the Philippines 1949-2009 Central Banking in the Philippines Fifty Pesos) |
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| Protection description | Sergio Osmeña's portrait visible when held to light; embedded security thread running vertically through the note. |
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| Comments |
The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas took over note production from the Bureau of Printing in 1978 when the Security Plant Complex came online in Quezon City — one of relatively few central banks in Southeast Asia to print its own currency entirely in-house rather than contracting abroad. This series, designated P#201, belongs to the New Design Series introduced in 1985 and subsequently revised multiple times, making precise dating of individual print runs within the series more meaningful than the face year alone suggests.
Security specifications here are minimal by contemporary standards — watermark and thread only, without the optical variable ink or color-shifting elements added to later BSP issues.