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1000 Piso With horizontal bars
| Issuer | Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas |
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| Year | 2020-2021 |
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| Value | 1000 Pesos (1000 piso) |
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| Obverse description | At left centre, front-facing portrait vignettes of three national heroes — José Abad Santos, Vicente Lim, and Josefa Llanes Escoda — arranged in a composite bust grouping. A historical scene of the Centennial Celebration of Philippine Independence is rendered at lower left. The face carries guilloche underprint patterns with the denomination "1000" and bilingual inscriptions in Filipino and English. |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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The "horizontal bars" designation distinguishes this from the standard 1000 Piso issue of the same period — a term used by collectors to identify a specific security feature variant rather than a separate emission. The BSP's Security Plant Complex has printed Philippine currency in-house since 1978, one of relatively few central banks in Southeast Asia to maintain full domestic production rather than outsourcing to specialist printers like De La Rue or Giesecke+Devrient.
The 80/20 cotton-abacá blend is distinctive: abacá, a Philippine-native plant fiber, has been incorporated into the substrate partly as a matter of national resource policy. Whether it meaningfully improves durability over pure cotton paper remains debated among printers.