1936 Philippine Fifty Centavos
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About This Coin
This page gathers the fifty centavo commemorative struck at Manila in 1936 for the Commonwealth. The recorded figures for the year add up to 20,000 coins. This fifty centavos was struck in 1936 for the founding of the Commonwealth of the Philippines on November 15, 1935. Ambrosio Morales designed it: on the obverse the facing busts of Frank Murphy, the last Governor-General and then High Commissioner, and Manuel L. Quezon, the first President of the Commonwealth; on the reverse the Commonwealth arms that went onto every regular Philippine coin from 1937. It keeps the 10-gram, 75 percent silver standard of the circulating fifty centavos.
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