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While swallowed coins typically traverse the alimentary tract without further incident, care must be taken to monitor patients, as reaction of the metals in the coin with gastric acid and other digestive juices may produce various toxic compounds if the coin remains within the alimentary tract for a prolonged period of time.
The drug policy of the Philippines is guided by the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002 and is implemented by the Dangerous Drugs Board with its implementing arm, the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency along with other member agencies. Aside from regulating and prohibiting the usage, sale, production of certain drugs, the 2002 law is ...
This work is in the public domain in the Philippines and possibly other jurisdictions because it is a work created by an officer or employee of the Government of the Philippines or any of its subdivisions and instrumentalities, including government-owned and/or controlled corporations, as part of their regularly prescribed official duties ...
Methanol is a toxic alcohol to humans via ingestion due to metabolism. If as little as 10 ml of pure methanol is ingested, for example, it can break down into formic acid , which can cause permanent blindness by destruction of the optic nerve , and 30 ml is potentially fatal, [ 2 ] although the median lethal dose is typically 100 ml (3.4 fl oz ...
Producing or using counterfeit money is a form of fraud or forgery, and is illegal in all jurisdictions of the world. The business of counterfeiting money is nearly as old as money itself: plated copies (known as Fourrées ) have been found of Lydian coins , which are thought to be among the first Western coins. [ 1 ]
The ₱20 coin received its final designs in the same month and the two coins will be released for circulation in December 2019. The 5-piso coin will have a nonagonal shape. The 20-piso coin will be bimetallic. The 20-piso coin will be the second bimetallic coin in circulation after the 10-piso coin of the New Design/BSP series. In 2020, the ...
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 the banknotes of the Philippine peso conceptualized from 1983 to 1985, issued from 1985 to 2013 and circulated from 1985 to 2019 including commemorative notes, and coins issued from 1995 to 2017.
Barter rings were circulated in the Philippines up to the 16th century. [3] As the discovery of gold deposits were seen by the locals, the precious metal was mined and worked in the Philippines, evidenced by many Spanish accounts like one in 1586 that stated: “The people of this island are very skillful in their handling of gold. They weigh ...