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100 Piso Dark purple, With horizontal bars
| Issuer | Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas |
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| Year | 2020-2022 |
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| Printer | Security Plant Complex of the BSP, Quezon City, Philippines (1978-date) |
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| Obverse description | Front-facing portrait vignette of President Manuel A. Roxas at left centre, set against a dark purple guilloche underprint with horizontal security bars. The Coat-of-Arms of the Republic of the Philippines and the Seal of the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas appear at upper centre, with a vignette of the Central Bank of the Philippines building (1949) at left. At bottom centre, a commemorative vignette marks the Inauguration of the Third Republic on 4 July 1946. |
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| Protection description | Portrait watermark of Manuel A. Roxas and electrotype numeral 100 |
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The 20% abacá content in Philippine banknote paper is not decorative nationalism — abacá fiber (from a banana relative endemic to the Philippines) genuinely improves tensile strength and wear resistance, and the BSP has used it as a deliberate differentiator since the Security Plant Complex began producing notes domestically. The dark purple "with horizontal bars" designation distinguishes this from earlier 100 Piso printings in the New Generation Currency series, the bars being security-enhancement overprints added to combat counterfeiting that had become a documented problem with the cleaner earlier design.