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| 正面描述 | Uniface note with the bank's circular arms vignette at top centre, flanked on either side by oval guilloche medallions bearing the denomination "Pf 10" in ornate letterpress. The main text block, rendered in elegant script and roman typeface, carries the full promise-to-pay legend with date and place of issue. Three manuscript signatures appear at the foot, attributed to El Director, El Tenedor de libros, and El Cajero, above a small anti-counterfeiting notice; the entire face is framed by an intricate foliate and engine-turned border. |
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| 背面描述 | Uniface; reverse is blank. |
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The Banco Español Filipino was the only bank of issue in the Philippines during the Spanish colonial period, established by royal decree in 1851. This 1883 series predates the monetary reforms that followed the opening of the Philippine economy to broader international trade, and the bank operated under strict charter conditions that limited note issuance to a fixed multiple of its metallic reserves — a constraint it periodically strained.
Surviving examples from the early 1880s are genuinely rare. The Philippine climate was brutal on paper currency, and much of the outstanding stock was retired or destroyed well before Spanish administration ended in 1898.