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5 Pesos Banco Español Filipino
| Issuer | Banco Español Filipino |
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| Year | 1904 |
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| Value | 5 Pesos |
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| Obverse description | Black letterpress print on plain paper with red serial numbers. The bank's heraldic arms appear as a central vignette at upper centre, flanked by red handstamp impressions at left and right margins. The text body carries the promise-to-pay legend along with the issuing branch designations, all within a ruled border. |
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| Reverse description | Entirely black-printed reverse executed in fine intaglio and letterpress work, with an elaborate guilloche border of interlocking geometric and floral motifs enclosing the full perimeter. A large symmetrical foliate vignette occupies the upper and lower centre fields, flanking a bold central panel bearing the denomination word in capital letters, with numeral 5 counters set within ornamental roundels at each of the four corners. |
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The Banco Español Filipino — later renamed the Bank of the Philippine Islands in 1912 — was the first bank chartered in the Philippines, established by royal decree in 1851. By 1904 it still held the exclusive note-issuing privilege on the islands, though American administration had been in place since 1901 following the Spanish-American War. Notes of this period occupy an awkward transitional moment: Spanish in name and institutional tradition, operating under an American colonial government increasingly intent on rationalizing Philippine currency.
Barclay & Fry's involvement as printer places this firmly in the London-produced series. The firm handled a number of colonial and semi-colonial bank commissions during this period before being absorbed into larger printing operations.