Catalog
50 Pesos Silver Certificate Issue
| Issuer | General Treasury of the Republic |
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| Year | 1934-1948 |
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| Value | 50 Pesos (50 CUP) |
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| Obverse lettering | REPUBLICA DE CUBA CINCUENTA 50 PESOS CALIXTO GARCÍA IÑIGUEZ ESTE CERTIFICADO, CUYO VALOR EN PLATA ACUÑADA ESTÁ DEPOSITADO EN LA TESORERÍA GENERAL DE LA REPÚBLICA, SERÁ ACEPTADO SIN LIMITACIÓN DE PAGO DE LOS IMPUESTOS DEL ESTADO LA PROVINCIA Y EL MUNICIPIO CERTIFICADO DE PLATA (Translation: Republic of Cuba Fifty 50 Pesos Calixto García Iñiguez This certificate, whose value in minted silver is deposited in the General Treasury of the Republic, will be accepted without limitation of payment of the taxes of the State, the Province and the Municipality. Silver Certificate) |
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| Variants | P#73a - 1934 P#73b - 1936 P#73c - 1936A P#73d - 1938 P#73e - 1943 P#73f - 1948 |
| Comments |
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.