Linggo, Mayo 1, 2011

US Administration Philippine One Peso Silver Coins

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These are one silver peso coins when the Philippine Islands became a US Commonwealth, and the arms of the Commonwealth were adopted. This seal is composed of a much smaller eagle with its wings pointed up, perched over a shield with peaked corners, above a scroll reading "Commonwealth of the Philippines". It is a much busier pattern, and widely considered less attractive.

These coins were minted at Philadelphia, San Francisco, Denver, and (after it was opened in 1920) Manila mints. Most of the Manila mintages occurred after 1925. They have S, D, and M mint marks. Several proof sets were made for collectors, from 1903 to 1908. These were unpopular at the time, and many were later broken up and released into circulation. Some coins were minted in extremely small numbers (as few as 500 pieces occurred in 1905, 1906, & 1908). Also, many were lost when the defenders of Corregidor threw them into the ocean, rather than surrender the Philippine national treasury to the Japanese. Only about 80% were ever recovered, and many of those were badly corroded. However the rarest coins are the 1906-s peso with as few as 250 coins in existence; but the rarest is the 1910-s Ten Centavaos with the only known coin which was on display at the Manila mint, being lost due to the bombing of Manila in 1945 as that the mint building was completely destroyed.
1 Peso Silver Coin


1904 S



1905S

1907S

1908S

1909S

1910S

1912S




 Year                     Mintage 
 1903                       2,558        Proof 
 1903                2,791,000 
 1903S            11,361,000       with mintamark 
 1904                       1,355       Proof 
 1904                     11,000       rare 
 1904S              6,600,000      with mintmark 
 1905                          471      Proof Only 
 1905S              6,056,000      with mintmark, curved serif on "1" 
 1905S                                    with mintmark, straight serif on "1" 
 1906                          500      Proof Only 
 1906S                 201,000      with Mint mark; ultra rare (counterfeits common)                                
 1907                              2      Proof only; without mintmark 
 1907S            10,276,000 
 1908                          500      Proof only; witout mintmark 
 1908S            20,955,000 
 1909S              7,578,000 
 1910S              3,154,000
 1911S                 463,000       rare 
 1912S                 680,000       rare