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500 Piso Seal Type 7; with tactile marks
| Issuer | Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas |
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| Year | 2024-2025 |
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| Printer | Security Plant Complex of the BSP, Quezon City, Philippines (1978-date) |
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| Obverse description | Conjoined right-facing portraits of President Corazon C. Aquino and Senator Benigno S. Aquino Jr. at left centre, flanked by the national coat of arms and BSP bank seal at upper centre; vignettes of the EDSA People Power Revolution (February 1986) at lower left and the Benigno S. Aquino Jr. monument in Makati City at lower centre. Tactile marks for the visually impaired appear at left and right margins. |
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| Reverse lettering | PUERTO PRINCESA SUBTERRANEAN RIVER NATIONAL PARK BLUE NAPED PARROT TANYGNATHUS LUCIONENSIS 500 LIMANDAANG PISO (Translation: Five hundred pesos) |
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The inclusion of tactile marks — raised intaglio dots placed at a note's corner — reflects a BSP accessibility initiative formalized in the New Generation Currency series, giving visually impaired users a means to distinguish denominations by touch alone. The 500 Piso denomination carries a specific tactile pattern distinct from other values in the series.
Seal Type 7 denotes the current BSP governor's signature block, updated as administrations change. The abacá fiber content is not incidental — the Philippines is the world's dominant source of abacá, and its use in banknote paper has been a deliberate domestic sourcing policy for decades.