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500 Pesos Silver Certificate (-)

500 Pesos Harrison Fitzsimmons Silver Certificate

Series of

NP ID Signature Total Printed Serial Numbers
B1.1[4][8] Wright - Branagan 6,000 1-6000
B1.1A[1] Wright - Branagan
B1.1B[2] Wright - Branagan 000000
B1.1C[3] Wright - Branagan

Series of

NP ID Signature Total Printed Serial Numbers
B1.2[5] Smith - Branagan 6,000 A1-A6000
B1.2A[1] Smith - Branagan
B1.3[6] Forbes - Barrett 6,000 A6001-
A12000
B1.4[7] Harrison - Fitzsimmons 10,000 A12000-
A22000

Note

[1] - Proof, Uniface Obverse mounted on plus sized paper
[2] - Proof, Uniface Obverse
[3] - Proof, Uniface Reverse
[4] - Shipment,
[5] - Shipment,
[6] - Shipment,
[7] - Shipment,
[8] - Vertically Overprinted "Subject to the provisions of the Act of Congress, Approved "

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500 Pesos Harrison Fitzsimmons Silver Certificate

Total Printed: 10,000

Specification
NP ID B1
Series Silver Certificate
Type Circulating Legal Tender
Denomination 500 Pesos
Years -
Seal Blue 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 - Purple
Process Printing
Ink Pigment
Introduction
Last Printing
Demonetized
Withdrawn
Total Notes 28,000
Total Value ₱ 14,000,000
Issuing Authority Government of the Philippine Islands
Kind Banknote
Currently Used

Obverse

Portrait of Miguel Lopez de Legazpi "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 Five Hundred Silver Pesos" "Payable to the bearer on demand (in silver pesos or in gold coin of the United States of equivalent value)" "Series of /" "Silver Certificate" "Legazpi" "Government of the Philippine Islands" "United States of America"

Reverse

Seal of the Philippine Islands "Silver Certificate" "500" "Five Hundred 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
James Francis Smith Governor General
Frank A. Branagan Treasurer
William Cameron Forbes Governor General
John L. Barrett Treasurer
Francis Burton Harrison Governor General
Albert P. Fitzsimmons Treasurer