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5 Pesos Ley 26.11.1898
| Issuer | República Filipina |
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| Year | 1899 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Black letterpress text on a red guilloche underprint, with the denomination CINCO PESOS rendered in large ornate red script at centre within a rectangular guilloche panel. The legend REPÚELICA FILIPINA appears in bold black type above the central vignette, with PAPEL MONEDA DE printed in smaller type within the panel. Decorative floral and geometric borders frame the entire note on all four sides, with the denomination numeral 5 repeated in the corner ornaments and along the lateral margins. |
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| Obverse lettering | REPÚELICA FILIPINA PAPEL MONEDA DE CINCO PESOS $5s Ley 26 Noviembre 1898 El Delegado del Gobierno Emision de cinco pesos Serie Núm. REPUBLICA FILIPINA |
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These notes were issued by the revolutionary government of Emilio Aguinaldo during the Philippine-American War, backed by nothing more than the promise of a state that was actively losing ground to U.S. forces. Aguinaldo himself signed them — an unusual arrangement that conflated executive authority with monetary credibility, and one that reflected how thin the institutional infrastructure of the nascent republic actually was.
The "Ley 26.11.1898" reference is to the financial law of 26 November 1898, passed just weeks after Philippine independence was declared. By 1901, with Aguinaldo captured and the republic effectively dissolved, these notes had no redemption path whatsoever.