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1/2 Peso José Rizal
| Issuer | Central Bank of the Philippines |
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| Year | 1961 |
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| Orientation | Coin alignment ↑↓ |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse lettering | JOSE RIZAL • CENTENNIAL • 1861 1961 NATIONAL HERO |
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José Rizal was executed by musketry at Bagumbayan on December 30, 1896 — the Spanish colonial government's attempt to silence a nationalist movement that instead accelerated it. His appearance on Philippine coinage was never a neutral decision; it carried the full weight of post-independence nation-building, cementing his official status as the preeminent national hero above figures with far more direct revolutionary roles, a hierarchy that remains politically contested in Filipino historiography.
The 1961 issue falls within the Central Bank's silver coinage series that would be discontinued as rising silver prices made the metal content economically untenable within the decade.