10 Pesos

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.