5 Centavos

This issue belongs to the Philippine coinage struck under Spanish authority in the final years before the archipelago's cession to the United States following the Spanish-American War of 1898. By 1896 — the year Andrés Bonifacio launched the Katipunan uprising against Spanish colonial rule — the Madrid Mint was still producing coins for a colony already in open revolt. Pieces that reached the islands during this period faced an increasingly disrupted monetary environment, and many were withdrawn or melted during the subsequent American transition to a new coinage system after 1903.