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50 Pesos Silver Certificate Issue
| Issuer | General Treasury of the Republic |
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| Year | 1934-1948 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Reverse lettering | REPUBLICA DE CUBA CERTIFICADO DE PLATA 50 50 PESOS PESOS 50 50 ESTE CERTIFICADO ACREDITA QUE SU IMPORTE ESTÁ DEPOSITADO INTEGRAMENTE EN MONEDAS DE PLATA DE A PESO, DEL CUÑO NACIONAL, EN LA TESORERÍA GENERAL DE LA REPÚBLICA A LA DISPOSICIÓN DEL TENEDOR DEL MISMO Y QUE LE SERÁ ENTREGADO A SU DEMANDA. (Translation: Republic of Cuba Silver Certificate 50 50 Pesos Pesos 50 50 This Certificate certifies that its amount is fully deposited in silver coins of 1 peso, of the national coinage, at the General Treasury of the Republic at the disposal of the bearer and will be delivered upon his demand.) |
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| Variants | P#73a - 1934 P#73b - 1936 P#73c - 1936A P#73d - 1938 P#73e - 1943 P#73f - 1948 |
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The Philippine 50 Pesos Silver Certificate series was produced under American colonial administration and continued in use well past the 1946 independence proclamation — a bureaucratic overlap that made these notes legal tender under two different sovereign arrangements without any modification to their text. The Bureau of Engraving and Printing in Washington handled the entire run, as it did for most Philippine paper currency of the period, reflecting Manila's dependency on U.S. printing infrastructure rather than any local capacity.
Silver certificates carried a specific redemption guarantee against silver pesos held in the Philippine Treasury, a backing mechanism that distinguished them formally from the earlier inconvertible issues of the 1900s.