1 Piso (Coins from my home country)

These coins were made a few years before my mom was born. The 1972 are made of a copper-zinc-nickel alloy and the 1975 are an iron or steel alloy. I’ll show with a magnet for fun.

 

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This was made in San Francisco in 1908.

 

Nice coins. I have 2 struck in San Francisco and a later commemorative

 

I have one stuck in San Francisco (1945) but is very bad shape

 

Those 5 piso coins should be Nickel, and nickel is magnetic.
https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces4518.html

 

Here is a younger one

 

Actually these 3 ferromagnetic elements: iron, cobalt, and nickel (including gadolinium but it is a lanthanide) arent magnetic in small concentrations in alloys. Thats why the 1972 1 piso coins werent magnetic

 

Here is the crappy philipino coin i am gonna show you

 

I'm a fan of the holed type of 5 sentimo. Here's a few of mine:

 

I see you didn't need the advice I posted on your welcome post. Good job.

 

In fact most of the philipino currency made in 2010 and post 2010 are magnetic
Because it was cheaper to make because it’s steel.

 

Great image

 

This is all the currency from the Philipines that i have. (I can sort it if you want)

 

Imma just gonna post them anyway

 

I see the older coins used the word "peso" and the newer coins spelled it "piso"

 

maybe a lazy change? \_(*u*)_/. By the way you are very observant

 

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I noticed that too, wondered why.

 

the Philippines was a English colony until 1967 and the currency was “peso”. After 1967 it changed from peso to piso because they were not an english pr american colony anymore, also i forgot to tell you guys this when @serafino and @Inspector43 asked the questions

 

"Peso" might have been a holdover from the Spanish colony era in the Philippines. I have a crown sized silver Philippine's 1897 one Peso coin that was minted by the Spanish.