The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) will start producing and circulating the new bills this month, but the old bills are still considered legal tender and are expected to remain in circulation for around three more years.
All six denominations — P20, P50, P100, P200, P500, and P1,000 — have new designs and security features. Below are the new designs.
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images.gmanews.tv/downloads/slideshow/index.htm?newbillsP20 bill
Obverse: Manuel L. Quezon
Reverse: Banaue Rice Terraces and a palm civet from the Cordilleras, which are famous for producing the civet cat coffee or kapeng alamid.
P50 bill
Obverse: Sergio Osmeña
Reverse: Taal Lake and the Giant Trevally (locally known as Maliputo), a delicious milky fish
P100 bill
Obverse: Manuel A. Roxas
Reverse: Mayon Volcano and the "butanding" or whale shark, the world's largest fish and the main attraction of Donsol, Sorsogon
P200 bill
Obverse: Diosdado Macapagal
Reverse: Bohol's Chocolate Hills and the Philippine tarsier, one of the world's smallest primates
P500 bill
Obverse: Corazon Aquino and Benigno "Ninoy" Aquino Jr.
Reverse: Palawan's Subterranean River National Park and the blue-naped parrot, which thrives in the forests of Palawan and Mindoro
P1,000 bill
Obverse: Josefa Llanes Escoda, Vicente P. Lim, and Jose Abad Santos
Reverse: Tubbataha Reef Marine Park and the South Sea Pearl, which is produced by oysters that thrive in the South Seas of which the Sulu Sea is part
The images of the national figures on the obverse side of the bills show them at a younger age. The youthful images were chosen because the public servants and heroes on the bank notes served the country during their prime.
The new security features of the bank notes include embossed prints, serial numbers, security fibers, watermarks, security thread, optically variable device, optically variable ink, and a see-through mark. The amount of features increase as the value of the note goes up.
The see-through mark is the word "Pilipino" written in Baybayin, a pre-Spanish Philippine writing system, which can only be seen completely when the note is viewed against the light.
A bank note's design is first conceptualized before it is drawn by an artist into a prototype banknote. Once the prototype has been approved, printing plates will be produced.
The production of bank notes consists of litho printing; intaglio printing; sheet inspection; numbering; tenning (where numbered sheets are inspected every tenth sheet to check if there are defects); and finishing which includes cutting, counting and packaging, according to the BSP.
www.gmanews.tv/story/208501/bsp-launches-redesigned-bank-notesAt last, the American flag is removed from our banknotes! I'm grateful for that, but I hate the inclusion of American General Douglas McArthur in the Leyte landing. Foreign personalities or symbols should not occupy any space in our banknotes no matter their historical importance.
I wonder why the Philippine Eagle was not considered in the bank notes.
Our national heroes like Rizal, Bonifacio, Mabini and historical events depicting national greatness and victories should also be featured in new banknotes, another series perhaps, to inculcate Filipinism... and not just on coins. Banknotes can stir more nationalist emotions than coins.... and another series is permissible just like in other countries.