This
Five Pesos banknote was issued by the Central Bank of the Philippines
in 1949-1969. It was printed by Thomas De La Rue Company, Limited,
London. The front of this note shows the portrait of Marcelo Del
Pilar at the left side and Graciano Lopez Jaena at the right side.
The back of this note shows the La Solaridad Newspaper. The color of
the obverse is black overprint which was printed on a gold &
yellow background.While the color of the reverse is gold.
It
was signed by Diosdado Macapagal as President of the Philippines and Andres V. Castillo as Governor of the Central Bank. According to Guy N. Davis,
in his book entitled: Collecting Banknotes of the Central Bank of the
Philippines (1988), there were 70 Million notes printed. This note
belongs to the Serial Numbers from BU 000,001- ER 1,000,000.
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