100 — One Hundred Pisos
The artwork
Front: Manuel A. Roxas, first president of the independent Third Republic, in a three-quarter view engraved in fine line. Behind him at the left, the Central Bank of the Philippines building of 1949; along the lower edge, the legend for the inauguration of the Third Republic, 4 July 1946. Upper right, the arms of the Republic and the blue seal of the Bangko Sentral, with the Tagalog text panel and the motto beneath the issuer's name.
Back: Mayon Volcano in Albay, drawn as the near-perfect cone it is, rising behind a whale shark — labelled Whale Shark, Rhincodon typus — swimming across the foreground, the species that draws visitors to Donsol. To the left, an outline map of the archipelago; down the right-hand edge, a band of Bicol weaving pattern. The value appears as 100 and, spelled out, SANDAANG PISO.
In circulation
The design belongs to the New Generation Currency family launched in December 2010, which displaced the long-running New Design series (demonetised at the end of 2017). This 2014 printing carries the original, softer mauve; from 2016 the hundred was reissued in a stronger violet after complaints that it was too easily taken for the thousand.
Details
- CurrencyPiso
- DenominationOne Hundred Pisos
- Collectedon the Philippines journey, 2016
- IssuerRepublika ng Pilipinas / Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas
- SeriesNew Generation Currency, dated 2014
- SignatureBenigno S. Aquino III (Pangulo ng Pilipinas) and Amando M. Tetangco Jr (Tagapangasiwa ng Bangko Sentral)
- SecurityWindowed segmented metallic thread through the centre of the face; serial ZK 394307 in ascending figures
- Dimensions160 × 66 mm