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500 Piso
| Issuer | Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas |
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| Year | 2024 |
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| Value | 500 Piso |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is dominated by a central vignette of Corazon Aquino and Benigno S. Aquino Jr. rendered in intaglio against a yellow-orange guilloche underprint, with the national seal of the Philippines to the right. The upper margin carries the republic title REPUBLIKA NG PILIPINAS and a secondary legend in Filipino script, while the lower margin bears the denomination inscription LIMANDAANG PISO; the date 2024 appears at lower left alongside the EDSA People Power I February 1986 commemorative text and a vignette of the Benigno S. Aquino Monument. Two signature panels appear to the right of the portrait vignette. |
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| Reverse lettering | Puerto Princesa Subterranean River National Park Blue-naped Parrot Tanygnathus Suluensis LIMANDAANG PISO 500 |
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The 2024 date places this squarely within the BSP's ongoing New Generation Currency series refresh, a program that began in earnest around 2010 and has seen incremental security upgrades across denominations rather than wholesale redesigns. The 500-piso denomination has historically been one of the most counterfeited in the Philippine series, which drove earlier iterations toward more aggressive optically variable features well before this printing.
Cotton substrate continued despite periodic BSP evaluations of polymer alternatives — the Philippines trialed polymer on lower denominations but never committed to it for the higher-value notes in this series.