1908 Philippine Twenty Centavos

About This Coin

This page gathers the twenty centavos dated 1908: coins for circulation from San Francisco, and proofs from Philadelphia. The recorded figures for the year add up to 1,535,500 coins, proofs included. From 1907 the twenty centavos was struck lighter and smaller, 4 grams of 75 percent silver about 20 millimeters across, after the act of June 23, 1906 let the Philippine government lower the weight and fineness of its silver coins; the designs did not change. The obverse is Melecio Figueroa's young woman in a flowing gown striking an anvil with a hammer, the smoking cone of Mount Mayon behind her, with the value above and FILIPINAS below. The reverse shows the American eagle over a striped shield, with UNITED STATES OF AMERICA and the date.