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Country: Philippines, Republic Of The Philippines
Capital: Manila
Currency: Philippine peso
Numeric code: 608
Alphabetic code: PHP
In the waters of the Western Pacific ocean is quite compact, lie the Islands of the Malay archipelago. More than seven thousand of them - the property of the Republic of the Philippines. The island is highly populated – the number of Filipinos more than a hundred million people. Manila – the primary city of the Republic - is placed on the biggest island - Luzon. The tourists – the main field, which employs the islanders.
Philippine peso equaling one hundred centavos, regularly helping the community in monetary relations since 1852. Find and buy first coins of the Philippines issued then, of course, you can now. The Internet is ready to provide the opportunity, but that's the price of Philippine coins of those years will be high.
If we talk about the "newer" brethren pesos, 1958, the Republic produced in "light" the following denominations:
- one centavo bronze;
- five centavos brass;
- 10, 25 and 50 centavos of Nickel alloy with brass.
One peso came into the wallets of Filipinos in 1972, and five pesos in 1975. 1983 has enriched the catalogue of coins of the Philippines two pesos and a series of coins decorated with images of animals living on the Islands, and local vegetation.
50 centavos coin not since 1991. 2 pesos lasted a little longer - until 1994. Today in everyday life of the islanders are 1 and 5 pesos, 10 pesos, released in 2000.
The value of the coins of the Philippines (not too ancient) should not be called inaccessible.
