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"Piloncitos" is a collectors' term for the bead-like gold masa coins [1] [2] used during the aristocratic era of the Philippines and in the early years of Spanish foreign rule, [1] called bulawan ("gold piece") in many Philippine languages or salapi ("coin") or ginto ("gold piece") in Tagalog.
In gold: 1, 2, 4 pesos; the 4 pesos weighing 6.766 grams of 0.875 fine gold In silver: 10, 20, 50 centimos; the 50 centimos weighing 12.98 grams of 0.9 fine silver (fineness reduced to 0.835 in 1881) The dearth of pre-1857 copper coins were addressed by counterfeit two-cuarto coins (worth 1/80th of a peso) made by Igorot copper miners in the ...
A toe board is like a tiny wall - usually between 4 and 12 inches - whose purpose is to prevent objects or people from falling over, or rolling over, the side of a raised platform, such as preventing a screwdriver dropped on the floor of elevated construction scaffolding from rolling off the side onto people or objects below.
1 peso: 1936 Foundation of the Commonwealth of the Philippines, with portraits of President Manuel Quezon and Governor General Frank Murphy: 10,000 35 mm 20.0 g 90% silver 50 centavos: 1947 Liberation of the Philippines by Gen. Douglas MacArthur: 200,000 27.5 mm 10.0 g 75% silver 1 peso: 1947 Liberation of the Philippines by Gen. Douglas ...
The Philippine peso fuerte (Spanish "Strong Peso" sign: PF) was the first paper currency of the Philippines and the Spanish East Indies during the later Spanish colonial period. It co-circulated with other Spanish silver and gold coins and was issued by El Banco Español Filipino de Isabel II (currently Bank of the Philippine Islands ).
The Spanish gold onza (or 8-escudo coin) was of identical weight to the Spanish dollar but was officially valued at 16 silver pesos, thus putting the peso on a bimetallic standard, worth either the silver Mexican peso (27.07 g 0.903 fine, or 0.786 troy ounce XAG) or 1 ⁄ 16 the gold onza (1.6915 g 0.875 fine, or 0.0476 troy ounce XAU), with a ...
The New Design Series (NDS) (also known as the BSP Series after the establishment of the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas) was the name used to refer to banknotes of the Philippine peso issued from 1985 to 2013 and the coins of the Philippine peso issued from 1995 to 2017. The coins were minted and issued from c. December 1995 to November 30, 2017 ...
1-peso coin issued under Spanish administration, 1864. Prior to 1861, Spanish dollars (pesos) or eight-real coins issued by Spain and Spanish America were generally accepted in the Philippines. In 1861, a gold 1-peso coin specifically for the Philippines was issued weighing 1.69 grams (0.060 oz) of 0.875 fine gold.