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100 Piso Light purple
| Issuer | Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas |
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| Year | 2010-2015 |
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| Value | 100 Pesos (100 piso) |
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| Reverse description | Central vignette composed of Mayon Volcano and a Whale Shark (Rhincodon typus) set against an outline map of the Philippines at left. Traditional embroidery motifs from the Bicol region are rendered at right, with the denomination numeral repeated within the design. The reverse palette echoes the light purple tones of the obverse, framed by fine geometric guilloche borders. |
| Reverse lettering | MAYON VOLCANO WHALE SHARK RHINCODON TYPUS SANDAANG PISO (Translation: One hundred pesos) |
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| Comments |
The 20% abacá content in these notes is not decorative policy — abacá, a banana-species plant fiber cultivated primarily in the Philippines, has been used in Philippine banknote paper since the 1950s, and the country remains the world's dominant producer of the material. Using it in the substrate gives the Bangko Sentral a degree of genuine supply-chain independence unusual for a central bank that otherwise relies on a foreign printer.
Oberthur Fiduciaire printed this series in France throughout the issue window, a contract arrangement that continued well past the BSP's stated goal of eventually internalizing production through its own Security Plant Complex in Quezon City.