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1000 Pesos Silver Certificate Issue
| Issuer | General Treasury of the Republic |
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| Year | 1944-1947 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Central intaglio portrait vignette of Tomás Estrada Palma, Cuba's first president, set against a fine guilloche underprint in green and black. Red serial numbers appear in the field, with the red seal of the General Treasury of the Republic at left. The note's border is composed of intricate lathe-work ornamental scrollwork framing the central design. |
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| Reverse description | The Cuban national coat of arms is engraved at centre within a circular guilloche frame, flanked by large numeral '1000' denominators at each corner and oval cartouches bearing 'MIL' at left and right centre. The entire design is printed in olive green intaglio on a finely tooled lathe-work background, with the redemption clause in a panel at lower centre and the printer's imprint 'AMERICAN BANK NOTE COMPANY' below. |
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The Philippine silver certificate series issued under the postwar Commonwealth and early Republic governments filled a critical gap: the Japanese occupation had flooded the islands with "Mickey Mouse money," and restoring confidence in paper currency required something explicitly backed by metal. These notes carried a legal obligation redeemable in silver pesos, a deliberate policy choice to distinguish them from the worthless wartime issues they were replacing.
ABNC printed this series before Philippine independence in July 1946, meaning some examples technically predate the Republic whose treasury name they bear — a byproduct of issuing authority language being drafted ahead of the political transition itself.