Philippine peso, twentieth-century reform lineage
Philippine peso, twentieth-century reform lineage: a currency still in use.
- Dates in use
- Still in use; introduction date not established here
- Currency code
- PHP
- Ancestry branch
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Where this money came from
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This currency also received later contributions, distinguished below from its origins.
No successor is established here. This does not imply extinction.
The story
BSP dates the U.S.-approved Philippine coinage reform to 1903 with two Philippine pesos per U.S. dollar. [1]
BSP describes Japanese occupation notes and local resistance issues during 1942–1945, followed by postwar and central-bank issues. [2]
Turning points
Unit standard adoption
The 1903 Philippine reform defined a gold peso and made US gold dollars tender at two pesos per dollar. The date is enactment; commencement depended on the stipulated coin supply. Spanish and Mexican predecessors are additional inputs, not erased by the new standard. [3]
Sources and evidence
- Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas · History of Philippine Money C178 ↗
- Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas · History of Philippine Money C179 ↗
- United States Congress · Act of 2 March 1903, chapter 980, 32 Stat. 952 C996 ↗
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“Philippine peso, twentieth-century reform lineage.” The Family Tree of Money. © Field Technologies, Inc. Reader edition 2026-10-13; research dataset v44. https://familytreeofmoney.org/currency/T-FTM000503.html