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1 Piso Pope Paul VI, gold
| Issuer | Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas |
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| Year | 1970 |
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| Currency | Piso (1967-date) |
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| Obverse lettering | PANGULO NG PILIPINAS FERDINAND E. MARCOS PISO (Translation: President of the Philippines.) |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Issued to commemorate Pope Paul VI's visit to the Philippines in November 1970 — the first papal visit to Asia — this gold strike was part of a broader commemorative program that included base-metal circulation issues and a silver variant. Paul VI's Manila stopover was also notable as the occasion on which a Bolivian painter named Benjamin Mendoza y Amor Flores lunged at the Pope with a ceremonial dagger at the airport, wounding him superficially before being subdued.
The .917 fineness matches traditional British sovereign gold standard, an unusual choice for a Philippine commemorative of this period.