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1 Peso Ley 30.11.1898 and 24.04.1899
| Issuer | República Filipina (Philippine Republic) |
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| Year | 1899 |
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| Currency | Peso (1857-1967) |
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| Obverse description | Typeset letterpress note printed in black on plain paper, with the vertical inscription REPUBLICA FILIPINA along the left margin. The central field carries the heading REPUBLICA FILIPINA above PAPEL MONEDA DE UN PESO in bold type, with the denomination UN PESO $1$ in large letters and the law dates Ley 30 Noviembre 1898 – 24 Abril 1899 below. Series letter, serial number, and the manuscript signature of El Delegado del Gobierno appear at lower centre, with decorative guilloche borders framing all four sides. |
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| Reverse description | Typeset letterpress note printed in black, with a dense guilloche grid filling the central field and the large block-letter text REPÚBLICA FILIPINA overlaid upon it. The upper portion bears the authority line El Presidente de la República, Emilio Aguinaldo, and a redemption clause in Spanish runs across the mid-field. The lower portion names El Presidente del Consejo de Gobierno, Pedro A. Paterno, and the signatory Z. Fajardo, with UN PESO repeated in the top and side margins and a penal warning against counterfeiting at foot. |
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The República Filipina notes of 1899 were issued by the short-lived revolutionary government under Emilio Aguinaldo, whose declaration of independence from Spain in June 1898 was almost immediately overtaken by the Treaty of Paris handing the archipelago to the United States. These pesos were printed under wartime conditions during the Philippine-American War, and the dual law dates — 30 November 1898 and 24 April 1899 — reflect two separate legislative authorizations as the republic scrambled to establish financial credibility while losing ground militarily.
The notes are genuinely scarce. The Aguinaldo government collapsed in stages through 1901, and much of its paper currency was never redeemed in any organized way.