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The Philippine peso is derived from the Spanish dollar or pieces of eight brought over in large quantities by the Manila galleons of the 16th to 19th centuries. From the same Spanish peso or dollar is derived the various pesos of Latin America, the dollars of the US and Hong Kong, as well as the Chinese yuan and the Japanese yen.
Hexagonal Rock Columns (Hong Kong UNESCO Global Geopark) $1,000: Skyline of Hong Kong, composed by 0s and 1s Bank of China (Hong Kong) series $20: Tea Culture: Bank of China Tower: $50: Butterfly and Flowers $100: Cantonese Opera $500: Hexagonal Rock Columns (Hong Kong UNESCO Global Geopark) $1,000: Head in profile, digitalized brain, globe
Banknotes of the Philippine peso are issued by the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (formerly the Central Bank of the Philippines) for circulation in the Philippines. The smallest amount of legal tender in wide circulation is ₱20 and the largest is ₱1000. The front side of each banknote features prominent people along with buildings, and events ...
Hong Kong officially introduced a new series of coin on New Year's Day (1 January) 1993 at stroke of midnight HKT in denominations of 10-cent, 20-cent, 50-cent, HK$1, HK$2 and HK$10. Since the introduction of the Octopus card in 1997, small value payments and purchases in Hong Kong are mostly made as Octopus transactions.
The Philippine five-peso coin (₱5) is the third-largest denomination of the coins of the Philippine peso.. Three versions of the coin are in circulation, the version from the BSP Series which was issued from 1995 to 2017, the original round coin from the New Generation Currency Coin Series issued from 2017 to 2019 and the nonagonal (9-sided shape) version since 2019.
Director of the Office of the Hong Kong Chief Executive John Tsang Paul Chan: 3: Eddie Yue Wai-man, JP 余偉文 (1965–) 1 October 2019 Incumbent: 5 years and 136 days Chinese University of Hong Kong (B.B.A.) University of London (LL.B, M.S.) Harvard University (M.B.A.) Deputy Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Monetary Authority Paul Chan
The Spanish-Filipino peso remained in circulation and were legal tender in the islands until 1904, when the American authorities demonetized them in favor of the new US-Philippine peso. [12] The first paper money circulated in the Philippines was the Philippine peso fuerte issued in 1851 by the country's first bank, the El Banco Español ...