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In September 2019, the ₱20 coin was designed. BSP Governor Benjamin Diokno stated that the design would retain Manuel L. Quezon as the person on the obverse, [ 2 ] and be bi-metallic with a bronze-plated steel outer ring and a nickel-plated steel center and that it will be slightly bigger than the P10 coin .
In copper: 1 ⁄ 2, 1, 2 cuartos; 20 cuartos in a real and 160 cuartos in a peso. The Casa de Moneda de Manila (or Manila mint) was founded in 1857 in order to supply smaller Philippine currency after the California gold rush of 1848 made silver more expensive and drained
Value: 0.20 Philippine peso: Mass: 4 g: Diameter: 20.00 mm: Edge: Reeded: Composition: 75% silver, 25% copper: Years of minting: 1880–1945: Obverse; Design: The standing figure of an adolescent female was utilized. She is clad in a long, flowing gown and holds in her right hand a hammer, resting atop an anvil, as seen on the minor coins.
The 20 peso note has been discontinued by the BSP in 2024 following the introduction of the First Philippine Polymer Series. The new BSP logo which was redesigned in January 2021 was adopted in all NGC banknotes starting with the 2022 issued banknotes featuring the signatures of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. and BSP Governor Felipe Medalla.
The act provided for the coinage and issuance of Philippine silver pesos substantially of the weight and fineness as the Mexican peso, which should be of the value of 50 cents gold and redeemable in gold at the insular treasury, and which was intended to be the sole circulating medium among the people.
However, following the release of the 20-centimo coin in 1864, a 25-centimo denomination was not issued until the end of the Spanish and American administrations. The first coin of independent Philippines to be valued a quarter of a peso was issued in 1958 as twenty-five centavos (the name for the sub-unit under American rule). Its obverse ...
Bank title, bank seal, value, serial number "PHILIPPINES", value April 15, 1951 June 30, 1958 10 centavos Maroon 20 centavos Green 50 centavos Blue 1 ⁄ 2 peso Green Mt. Mayon and three men riding on a carabao-drawn cart July 1, 1958 February 28, 1969 Large denomination notes ₱1: 160 mm × 66 mm Gray Apolinario Mabini: Barasoain Church ...
Image Value Year Description Issued Diameter Weight Composition 50 centavos: 1961 100th Anniversary of Birth of Jose Rizal: 100,000 30.6 mm 12.5 g 90% silver 1 peso