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50 Pesos Philippine Islands, Without pesos over 50
| Issuer | Treasury of the Philippine Islands |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Printer | Bureau of Engraving and Printing, United States (1862-date) |
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| Obverse description | Intaglio-printed vignette at left of General Henry W. Lawton in three-quarter bust, uniformed, set within an ornate oval frame with decorative scrollwork and lathe-work border. The centre carries the large denomination text over guilloche underprint, flanked by numeral 50 counters at upper corners, with two-line serial number in red and a large circular red seal of the Government of the Philippine Islands at right. Two manuscript signatures appear below the central text panel, identified as Governor General and Treasurer respectively. |
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| Reverse description | Entirely engraved in red, the reverse is dominated by a central oval vignette of the Philippine coat of arms surrounded by elaborate acanthus scroll and lathe-work guilloche filling the entire field. Denomination numeral 50 appears in each corner within ornamental frames, and the inscription bands run horizontally at top and bottom enclosing the face value legend. |
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The Philippine Islands Treasury certificates of this period were printed in Washington and shipped across the Pacific — a logistical reality that made wartime and crisis replacements slow and difficult. This particular variety is distinguished by the omission of the word "pesos" above the numeral "50" on the face, a design inconsistency that Pick catalogs as a separate listing from the standard type. Whether this reflects a plate alteration, a proof-stage decision, or simply an engraving oversight that slipped through BEP quality control has never been definitively settled.
Two signature combinations are known for P#65, pairing Secretary of Finance Harrison with either Fitzsimmons or Carmona as Treasurer — the latter combination being considerably harder to locate.