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1 Piso Reverse Trial
| Issuer | Central Bank of the Philippines |
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| Year | 1966-1968 |
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| Value | 1 Peso (1 piso) (1 PHP) |
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| Obverse lettering | MASAGANANG ANI MAUNLAD NA BUHAY PISO (Translation: Rich harvest prosperous life.) |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Trial pieces issued by the Central Bank of the Philippines in this period predate the formal 1967 coinage reform, which replaced the old centavo-based English series with a new Pilipino series denominated in piso and sentimo. This particular brass reverse trial would have been produced to test design viability before committing to a production composition — the eventual circulating 1 Piso was struck in copper-nickel-zinc, making brass trials anomalous by material alone.
Pattern and trial coinage from the Philippine Mint during this transitional window is sparsely documented. KM# Pn11 represents one of several experimental strikings whose survival numbers remain unconfirmed in the standard references.