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50 Piso Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas
| Issuer | Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas |
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| Year | 1999 |
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| Value | 50 Pesos (50 piso) |
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| Reverse description | A large architectural vignette at centre presents the National Museum of the Philippines, formerly the Legislative Palace, rendered in fine intaglio line work with palm trees framing the neoclassical façade; the denomination numeral 50 appears in large figures at upper right, with the value inscription below the building. The overall colour scheme is in shades of red-orange against a pale guilloche underprint. |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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The BSP's Security Plant Complex in Quezon City has handled domestic production of Philippine banknotes since the late 1970s, reducing the country's dependence on foreign printers — a shift that followed decades of contracts with American Bank Note Company and other overseas firms. The 1999 series built on that infrastructure with incremental security upgrades across the denomination range, though the 50 Piso remained among the more modestly secured notes in the set, carrying a watermark as its primary anti-counterfeiting measure at a time when regional central banks were moving toward more layered protection.