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5000 Piso Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos
| Issuer | Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas |
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| Year | 1977 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
| Obverse lettering | REPUBLIKA NG PILIPINAS * 5000 PISO * FM (Translation: Republic of the Philippines.) |
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Issued to mark the twenty-fifth anniversary of Ferdinand Marcos's political career, this coin was produced at a moment when the Philippines was deep into martial law — declared in 1972 and still firmly in place by 1977. The Bangko Sentral issued the piece as part of a broader series of commemorative gold coins that critics noted served the regime's international image as much as any monetary function.
Imelda's co-appearance on a circulating-denomination coin was itself a political statement; few modern heads of state had placed a spouse on legal tender gold coinage of this weight class.