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  Philippine peso coins Information
Philippine peso coins are issued by the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas for circulation in the Philippines, and are currently available in seven denominations.
The 1/2 and 1 centavo coins were bronze, the 5 centavo nickel, the 10, 20, 50 centavo and peso coins were silver.
The obverse of the 10, 20, 50 centavo, and peso coins are similar, but they show the figure of Liberty, a standing female figure (considered by many to be the daughter of the designer 'Blanca') in the act of striking the anvil with a hammer.
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  CONK! Encyclopedia: Peso   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
The peso coin weighed 27 grams and was of 92 per cent pure silver.
Spanish pesos circulated throughout the European colonies in the Americas and the Philippines.
Bolivia traded in its Bolivian peso for its new currency, the boliviano (at a ratio of one million to one), in 1990.
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 Philippine peso coins - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The 1/2 and 1 centavo coins were bronze, the 5 centavo nickel, the 10, 20, 50 centavo and peso coins were silver.
The obverse of the 10, 20, 50 centavo, and peso coins are similar, but they show the figure of Liberty, a standing female figure (considered by many to be the daughter of the designer 'Blanca') in the act of striking the anvil with a hammer.
However the rarest coins are the 1906-s Peso with as few as 250 coins in existance; but the rarest is the 1910-s Ten Centavaos with the only known coin which was on display at the Manila mint, being lost due to the bombing of Manila in 1945 as that the mint building was completely destroyed.
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 Philippine peso - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
During the mutiny of Spanish officers in 1868, the Philippine Treasury received mounts of silver coins from Seville and Madrid showing the figures of Liberal Espana and Amadeo I of Spain on five pesetas coins which were circulated.
Philippine subsidiary coins of twenty centavos and ten centavos shall be legal tender in amounts not exceeding twenty pesos.
The peso has been a floating currency ever since, which means that the currency is a physical representation of the domestic debt and whose value directly tied to people's perception of the stability of the current regime and its ability to repay the debt.
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 Philippine peso coins -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
There was a fear that many of the coins would be melted down for their silver value (which came to pass at various times, especially the 1980's when silver topped $40/ounce).
The obverse of the 10, 20, 50 centavo, and peso coins are similar, but they show the figure of Liberty in the act of striking the anvil with a hammer.
Also, many were lost when the defenders of (The peninsula and island in the Philippines where Japanese forces besieged American forces in World War II; United States forces surrendered in 1942 and recaptured the area in 1945) Corregidor threw them into the ocean, rather than surrender the Philippine national treasury to the Japanese.
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 Encyclopedia: Philippine peso   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
The Philippine Declaration of Independence was an event on June 12, 1898 in the Philippines where in the Filipino revolutionary forces under General and Philippines first republican president Emilio Aguinaldo proclaimed the sovereignty and independence under the new constitution of the Philippine Islands as a republic from the colonial rule...
The Philippine peso on paper continued aside from Bank of the Philippine Islands the Philippine Colonial Insular Treasury printed 1,4,25 pesos fuertes equivalent to Spanish-Mexican-Philippine Money Jump to: navigation, search May 1 is the 121st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (122nd in leap years).
Philippine peso bills are issued by the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (Central Bank of the Philippines) for circulation in the Philippines.
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 Peso   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Peso is the name of the currency of various countries: \n*Argentina: Argentine peso (ISO 4217: ARS)\n*Chile: Chilean peso (CLP)\n*Colombia: Colombian peso (COP)\n*Cuba: Cuban peso (CUP)\n*Dominican Republic: Dominican peso (DOP)\n*Mexico: Mexican peso (MXN, previously MXP)\n*Philippines: Philippine peso (PHP)\n*Uruguay: Uruguayan peso (UYU) In Spanish "peso" means weight.
This is the famous "piece of eight" and later became called the peso.
Spanish pesos circulated throughout the European colonies in the Americas.
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 Philippine peso - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
When the Philippines became independent in 1946, the peso was pegged at two pesos per US dollar until the early 1960s, when then-President Diosdado Macapagal floated the currency.
During the 1997-1998 Asian financial crisis, the peso fell to 40+ pesos to the dollar.
It further fell to 50+ pesos to the dollar during the political crisis in the time of then-President Joseph Estrada.
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 Philippine Coins
The circulating medium was to be the Philippine silver peso, which was to be legal tender for all debts, public and private, and its value was to be maintained on a parity with the theoretical gold peso.
The Spanish Philippine coins and the Mexican coins in circulation were collected by the treasury and exported to the San Francisco mint, where they were reminted into new coins of the weight and fineness prescribed by law.
All of the coins and bills were readily interchangeable with the United States coins in common use, the dollar being worth two pesos, the half dollar one peso, the twenty-five cent piece a half peso, the ten-cent piece a peseta, the five-cent piece a media peseta and the cent two centavos.
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 Philippine peso
The Philippine peso (Filipino: piso) is the official currency of the Philippines.
In the 1960s, the value of the peso was 0.50 US dollarss.
During the 1997-1998 Asian financial crisis, the peso lost its value to 40+ peso to the US dollar and then became 50+ peso to the US dollar during the economic crisis in the time of President Estrada.
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The United States obtained the Philippines as a colony at the end of the Spanish American War in 1898.
The obverse of the coins had a woman standing or a man sitting at an anvil with a volcano in the background.
The coins continued to be made in Manila until the Japanese took over the country in 1941.
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 Wikipedia: Peso
The peso coin weighed 27 grams and was of 92% pure Silver.
The Spanish peso, circulated through out the American Colonies, and States.
Portuguese-speaking Guinea-Bissau previously used pesos (GWP) prior to adopting the CFA franc (XAF) upon accession to the West African Economic and Monetary Union (UEMOA) on 1 May 1997.
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 Philippine peso bills   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
The smallest amount of legal tender in wide circulation is twenty pesos and the largest is 1000 pesos.
This independence is shown at the right side where the Philippine flag was raised and the American Stars and Stripes is lowered on July 4 1946.
A Philippine flag is also to the right of his portrait, near the central part of the front side.
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 Colors Philippines - Philippine Travel Guide by colorsphilippines.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
This accident of geography has placed the Philippines at the confluence of the moisture-laden winds from the western Pacific Ocean and the South China Sea in the second half the year and in the path of cold dry winds from China and Siberia in the first half.
These winds account for the two pronounced seasons the year round—the dry, generally from December to May, is brought about by the amihan or the northeast monsoon, and the wet, from June to November, by the habagat or the southwest monsoon—with slight variations attributable to local weather patterns.
Coins come in denominations of 1, 5, 10, and 25 centavos; 1, 5 and 10 pesos; and 10, 20, 50, 100, 500 and 1,000 notes.
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 SPANISH EMPIRE COINS IN GUAM- PART TWO
On October 31, 1828, the Governor-General of the Philippines inaugurated the counterstamping of Spanish-American coins during the reign of Spain's Ferdinand VII (1808 to 1833).
The quartos are copper coins that were manufactured in the Philippines by Chinese contractors and were used as colonial currency in both the Philippines and Guam.
The only indication that these coins were intended for circulation in the Philippines and Guam was their valuation-not in Spanish reales, pesetas, or escudos, but in fractions of a Philippine peso.
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 Peso - the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
United States, where they continued to be legal tender until they were demonetized in 1857.
Bolivia traded in its Bolivian peso for its new currency, the
Guinea-Bissau previously used pesos (GWP) prior to adopting the
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 Philippine Coins
The one Peso, not circulated outside the leper colony (and that was the special coins made for the colony) had not been placed in circulation since 1912 finally returns in 1972.
For the second phase, the 25 sentimos brass coin shrunk, the 50 sentimos coin also shrunk and changed alloy, the piso shrank, the two piso shrank and changed from a many-sided coin to a round one, and a five piso coin was introduced, commemorating Emilio Aguinaldo.
I have a very small commonwealth copper coin, the overse (heads)were completely worn and smoothened,reverse (tails) was readable, phrase "united states of america" and emblem still and can be seen,i think this is a half cent, i obtained this from a client naming it "isang kusing",need information regarding this coin and it's equivalent value.thanks.
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 PHILIPPINES TRAVEL INFORMATION
It is part of the East Indies, a vast island group lying south and east of mainland Asia, with Taiwan at its northernmost coast and Borneo on the south.
Because Philippine society was loosely organized, without a central government, the Spanish conquest was rapid and total.
Coin denominations are: 1, 5, 10, and 25 centavos, P1, and P5.
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 Money in the Philippines
The currency in the Philippines is the Philippine peso (or piso), divided into 100 centavos (or centimo).
Current are coins of 1, 5, 10, and 25 centavos and 1 and 5 pesos, and bank notes of 5, 10, 20, 50, 100, 200, 500 and 1000 pesos.
On the reverse is the church of Barasoain.
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 Gold 10 Pesos Coin - Find it on Coins-n-More.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
World Coin Photo GalleryA gallery of world coin photographs with brief notes, intended as a guide coins was from 1915 to 1916, and our photograph shows a 1916 diez (10) pesos.
BuyGoldBars… Before the introduction of the krugerrand coin in 1967 the Mexican 50 Pesos coin was5 Pesos.
Money in Mexico exchanging dollars pesos value exchange rates… 10 and 20 peso coins are also round, but golden on the outside.
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 CEBU PORTAL : : CEBU Currency, The Philippine Peso
The currency is the Philippine Peso (P), divisible into 100 centavos.
Notes are in denominations of 10, 20, 50, 100, 200, 500 and 1,000 while coins are at.05,.10,.25, P1 and P5.
Visitors are advised to bring sufficient amounts of change in small bills or coins when moving around.
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 SPANISH EMPIRE COINS IN GUAM- PART Three
Upon the capture of Guam, the squadron was to proceed to the Philippines to reinforce Commodore George Dewey.
On June 22, 1898, the squadron weighed anchor and proceeded to the Philippines.
However, it is assumed that Philippines coinage was considered equivalent to Spanish currency and hence, to Mexican currency since the 1897 Philippine peso was minted in Madrid and gold coins and the remaining Philippine silver coinage minted in the 19th century were issued by the royal mint in Manila.
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I came back to the store to retrun the extra coin but when I got to talk to the male in the counter he explained that the other coin wasn't a P5 coin but soemthing of the same color.
I checked the coin and found out it was of a different currreny.
I was apologetic and was explaining that it was not my intention to pay with a different coin.
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 Philippine peso coins - Enpsychlopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)

These coins came in 1/2 centavo (minted only 1903-1908 with 17.7 million coins; yet unpopular with public and so were discontinued), 1 centavo, 5 centavo, 10 centavo, 20 centavo, 50 centavo, and 1 peso varieties.

The obverse of the 10, 20, 50 centavo, and peso coins are similar, but they show the figure of Liberty, a standing female figure (considered by many to be the daughter of the designer 'Blanca') in the act of striking the anvil with a hammer.

These coins were minted at the Philadelphia, San Francisco, Denver, and (after it was opened in 1920) Manila mints.

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After making a purchase, a man was given P2.50 as change with the following combination of coins: 2 * P1.00, 2 * P0.25.
The next day he went shopping, he was given another P2.50 as change for a different purchase but this time with different combination of coins: 1 * P1.00,  4 * P0.25, 5 * P0.10.
Your task is to write a program that finds the total number of combination for a given amount using the different combination of Philippine peso coins (10, 5, 1,.25,.10,.05).
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