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100 Piso Central Bank
| Issuer | Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas |
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| Year | 2013 |
| Type | Commemorative banknote |
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| Obverse description | Front-facing portrait vignette of Manuel A. Roxas positioned at left centre, flanked by the flags of the United States and the Philippines at right. A commemorative overprint appears at left, set against a guilloche underprint background. Inscriptions in Filipino run along the upper and lower margins identifying the issuing authority and denomination. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse carries a vignette of the old Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas building alongside a view of the new BSP complex at centre left, rendered in intaglio against a multicolour guilloche underprint. Denomination and issuing authority inscriptions appear in Filipino within the surrounding border design. |
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The P#218 series was introduced as part of the BSP's New Design Series, which began rolling out from 1985 onward, though this particular note continued in production well into the 2010s with only incremental security upgrades. The Security Plant Complex in Quezon City — one of the few central bank intaglio facilities in Southeast Asia operating continuously under government ownership — handled the full print run domestically, which was not always the case for earlier Philippine issues that relied on foreign security printers.
Polymer conversion for the 100-peso denomination was trialed and debated internally for years before the BSP ultimately committed to a full polymer shift announced in 2022, making paper examples from this period the final generation of the old substrate.