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50 Pesos Silver Certificate (-)

50 Pesos Harrison Fitzsimmons Silver Certificate

Series of

NP ID Signature Total Printed Serial Numbers
B23.1[1][3] Wright - Branagan 80,000 1-
80000

Series of

NP ID Signature Total Printed Serial Numbers
B23.2[2] Harrison - Fitzsimmons 40,000 A1A-
A40000A

Note

[1] - Shipment,
[2] - Shipment,
[3] - Vertically Overprinted "Subject to the provisions of the Act of Congress, Approved "

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50 Pesos Harrison Fitzsimmons Silver Certificate

Total Printed: 40,000

Specification
NP ID B23
Series Silver Certificate
Type Circulating Legal Tender
Denomination 50 Pesos
Years -
Seal Red Seal
Orientation Horizontal
Flip Short Edge
Printer U.S. Bureau of Engraving and Printing
Paper 75% cotton, 25% linen
Dimension 156 mm × 66 mm
Thickness 0.11 mm
Weight approx. 1 gm
Print Obverse - Black
Reverse - Red
Process Printing
Ink Pigment
Introduction
Last Printing
Demonetized
Withdrawn
Total Notes 120,000
Total Value ₱ 6,000,000
Issuing Authority Government of the Philippine Islands
Kind Banknote
Currently Used

Obverse

Portrait of U.S. General Henry W. Lawton "Silver Certificate" "By Authority of an Act of Congress of the United States of America, Approved " “This Certifies that there have been deposited in the Treasury of the Philippine Islands Fifty Silver Pesos" "Payable to the bearer on demand (in silver pesos or in gold coin of the United States of equivalent value)" "Series of /" "Government of the Philippine Islands" "United States of America"

Reverse

Seal of the Philippine Islands "Silver Certificate" "50" "Fifty Silver Pesos" "Philippine Islands"

Remarks

All were printed in uncut sheet of 5. System for Replacement note were not used for this series, and it is highly probable that the same serial numbers on defective notes were used for the replacements.

Signature
Name Title
Luke Edward Wright Governor General
Frank A. Branagan Treasurer
Francis Burton Harrison Governor General
Albert P. Fitzsimmons Treasurer