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10 Pesos
| Issuer | Banco de Oriente |
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| Year | 1884-1900 |
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| Value | 10 Pesos |
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| Obverse description | Green-tinted note with ornate guilloche cornerpieces and a central vignette of a riverside or coastal landscape with cattle. Denomination numeral '10' appears in large counters at left and right flanking the vignette. Text panel below carries the promise-to-pay legend, with place and date of issue at lower left and two manuscript signatures at bottom. |
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| Reverse description | Entirely engraved in green ink, the reverse is dominated by a symmetrical design of five large interlocking guilloche rosettes arranged in a cross pattern. The central oval carries the bank name 'BANCO DE ORIENTE' in two arched lines, flanked by numerals '10' within the lateral rosettes, with two smaller ornamental ovals above and below. |
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Banco de Oriente was one of several provincial banks chartered in the Philippines under Spanish colonial authority during the final years of that administration. American Bank Note Company held a near-monopoly on security printing for Philippine private banks in this period, supplying plates to institutions that often lacked the volume to justify the cost — which is partly why so many of these provincial issues survive in small numbers regardless of denomination.
The sixteen-year window on this issue reflects either a prolonged authorization period or uncertainty about surviving redemption records. The 1898 Spanish-American War effectively ended the banking regime under which Banco de Oriente operated, making late-date examples from the final years of the range considerably harder to place with confidence.