Catalog
100 Piso
| Issuer | Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas |
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| Year | 2022-2024 |
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| Reference(s) | TBB#1098 |
| Obverse description | Front-facing portrait vignette of Manuel A. Roxas at left centre, set against a guilloche underprint, with the coat of arms of the Philippines and the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas seal at upper centre. A vignette of the Central Bank of the Philippines building (1949) appears at left, while a commemorative vignette of the Inauguration of the Third Republic is rendered at bottom centre. Denominations and bilingual inscriptions frame the design. |
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| Reverse lettering | MAYON VOLCANO WHALE SHARK (RHINCODON TYPUS) SANDAANG PISO 100 (Translation: One hundred pesos) |
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The abacá content in this note is a long-running Philippine policy choice, not a novelty — the BSP has blended locally grown abacá fiber into its banknote paper for decades, partly as a practical measure to support the domestic fiber industry and partly because abacá genuinely improves tensile strength and tear resistance in circulating currency. The Philippines remains the world's dominant abacá producer, so the material has both economic and supply-chain logic behind it.
The Security Plant Complex has printed Philippine currency in-house since 1978, one of the relatively few central banks in Southeast Asia to maintain fully sovereign production capacity. Watermark-only security on a note of this denomination is notably lean by current international standards.