One scoped currency identity. Changes to subdivisions, scale, standard, instruments or issuers do not by themselves create children. A distinct account unit can remain a successor. Current currency in the inherited endpoint register. Dated observations: 1903–1904; this does not establish the entire lifetime.
Parents / predecessors
Mexican pesoaccount unit contribution · 1904 · later absorption or contribution
No distinct successor currency is established in the loaded view.
Standards and other context
standard alignment
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.
C996, C1613
Latest research
Modern account-unit review
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. The1903 US-dollar statutory ratio is monetary-standard/legal-tender influence. It is not in itself conversion of prior USD account obligations into a new Philippine unit. Keep optional standard-adoption context, excluded from ancestry.
Shared Javanese monetary vocabulary does not establish a Java-to-Laguna inheritance or a continuous route into the Philippine peso. Do not equate this single record with a currency of the whole archipelago.
Includes dated issues, standards, subdivisions and institutional changes. Each event retains the source's date qualifications.
1903Philippine coinage reform and dollar parity
BSP dates the U.S.-approved Philippine coinage reform to 1903 with two Philippine pesos per U.S. dollar.
C178
1903-03-02Unit 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.
C996
Evidence & research notes 6 claims
Dated observations, not a proven complete lifespan.
Supported C178
BSP dates the U.S.-approved Philippine coinage reform to 1903 with two Philippine pesos per U.S. dollar.
Generic barter-origin and prosperity claims not adopted.
No unsupported 1852 date inferred.
Supported C996
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.
Section 1, Philippine gold peso and two-peso/one-dollar standard; sections 3, 5 and 7 on earlier coinage
Supported C1166
Act 1045 made obligations in Mexican local currency enforceable as Philippine-peso judgments, allowed settlement in Philippine pesos, and extinguished the old obligation upon payment. Partial input to a multiple-currency replacement. The conversion was adjudicated by value, not a universal 1:1 exchange. Do not infer merely from purchase of Mexican silver as bullion.
Philippine Commission Act No.1045 · Philippine Commission Act No.1045, 27 January 1904Citation S561 · Open source ↗
Sections 1, 3–6, 8, 11–12
Source access and limitations
Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.
Supported C1613
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.
Shared Javanese monetary vocabulary does not establish a Java-to-Laguna inheritance or a continuous route into the Philippine peso. Do not equate this single record with a currency of the whole archipelago.
Antoon Postma · The Laguna Copper-Plate Inscription: Text and Commentary, Philippine Studies40.2 (1992),183–203Citation S1080 · Open source ↗
pp.186–187 translation line5 and nn.5–6; provenance discussion from p.185
Source access and limitations
Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.