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| 表面の説明 | The right portion of the note carries an elaborate engraved design printed in dark green on light green paper, with the bank arms at centre enclosed within a circular guilloche vignette bearing the legend EL BANCO ESPAÑOL FILIPINO, flanked by the denomination PS50 on either side. The issuer's name arches in bold letterpress across a dark banner above the arms, surmounted by the word CINCUENTA, while the promise-to-pay text in cursive script and the date 1º Enero 1904 appear below, with spaces provided for three authorising signatures. The left portion of the note forms a detachable counterfoil, carrying the Nº, Fecha, and Ps 50 notation in bold type on the plain green paper ground. |
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| 表面の銘文 | CINCUENTA EL BANCO ESPAÑOL FILIPINO. Nº PS 50 PS 50 Pagará al portador CINCUENTA pesos. 1º Enero 1904. MANILA. 1º Enero 1904. El Tenedor de Libros El Cajero El Director Fecha 190 (Translation: Fifty / The Spanish-Filipino Bank will pay the bearer fifty pesos. / 1st January 1904. Manila. / The Bookkeeper / The Cashier / The Director) |
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El Banco Español Filipino was already an institution in terminal decline when this note was issued. The bank had held a monopoly on Philippine currency since 1851, but American colonial administration had been steadily dismantling that position since 1898, and the bank would formally close in 1916. By 1904 its notes circulated alongside U.S. colonial issues in a monetary environment that was actively working against it.
Barclay & Fry printed for numerous colonial and commercial banks across the British Empire during this period, though their output is less extensively catalogued than contemporaries like Waterlow or De La Rue. The P#A34 designation reflects how thinly documented this series remains.