Presentation on US Philippines Coins & Currency

I've been asked to prepare a presentation on US coins and currency for a local coin club. I've got quite a few images to use for the coin side (although I could certainly use more), but I know very little about the currency.

Do you have any recommendations on where to start researching?

 

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As far as currency, you'd do better posting this in the currency forum.

http://www.cointalk.com/forumdisplay.php?f=31

 

Here are some coins you can use for your presentation if you like, you may already have better examples....

first, a 1903 bronze half cent, one of the earlier coins issued after America defeated the Spanish in the Spanish American war.
There is a small piece of lint on the coin at 3 o' clock in the photos.

 

Here is a 1918-S bronze one centavo, a little later, and minted at the San Francisco mint in California.
I also have a 1925 - M, Manilla 1 centavo, but it is in poor shape.

 

Silver

And here, is, first off a 1907 Silver 20 centavos - the first three photos
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And next is a 1944 - S Silver 50 centavos. San Francisco Mint.

 

You can use these photos, too if you'd like:

 

Last one....

Here is a copper-nickel-zinc 1944 5 centavos coin, I also have a 1931 - M, Manilla - but it isn't nearly as nice as this example.

I don't know if any of this helps, but feel free to use the photos.

 

Are you focusing on a specific era? The Standard Catalog of World Paper money is a good start, both the General issue and the specialized issue (Both books have info on Philippines notes, but depending what you're focusing on, one might be more useful than the other). The Standard Catalog books will list all the notes, and give a brief history (but they don't go too in depth). There's also a great book by Neil Shafer A guide book of Philippine paper money it was printed in 1964, so it's a bit dated, but it has a lot of good information.

I collect notes from the Philippines during the WWII era. Imo, that time period is really interesting, because you have the national issued currency, the Japanese Invasion Currency (Japanese Invasion Money JIM )and the Guerrilla Currency (WWII Philippine guerrilla money).

If you need any pictures, I have a couple of notes here: http://banknotebank.com/collection/raider34/?sort=country&sale=0&country=0&page=2

That should be a link to page 2, the Philippines notes start towards the bottom of that page and go to page 5. Feel free to use any of them.

 

I don't have any high-end notes but these might be of interest:

 

Here's some currency photos that you can also use if you'd like, too:

 

GeorgeM

You can also just start from the home page on banknotebank and select the region and country of interests from a drop down selection and view notes:

banknotebank.com/country: Philippines

 

The only currency I have is called JIM - (Japanese Invasion Money) of which I have 10 centavos and 5 pesos - Not sure it is what you are looking for - but ...

 

Those are two beautiful notes ikan, I especially like that first one. The only currency I have is several of the same two denominations of Japanese Invasion Notes that LewR posted, but I haven't taken photos of them.

 

PHILIPPINES, U.S. Territory. 1898-1935.
CU Centavo
Philadelphia mint. Dated 1904. Proof.
Shafer S-2


You may use my image.

 

Redbook or Standard Catalogue of World Coins or Paper Money.

 

These are not particularly good references for the series. I wouldn't use the Redbook at all, and would use Krause as a tertiary reference at best. The two specialized works on US-Philippine coinage are United States Territorial Coinage for the Philippine Islands by Neil Shafer, which I cited above, and the more up-to-date U.S./Philippine Coinage by Lyman Allen.

 

Well, Redbook I know is wrong on everything price wise all most.

 

Now that is an image worth using.... WOW Arda, very nice one mate.

 

Redbook is a very good beginner's guide, but for more detailed work it really falls down. It doesn't give very much historical background on the coinage and, more importantly, it lacks a numbering system.

They were a specialty for a little while. I still have an almost-complete date/mint set. I even dabbled in varieties for a brief time.

 

GeorgeM:

Something else you might find interesting in a modern sense is the Philippines 200 Peso Quadricentennial (400) Commemorative Items (1611-2011) among other things of related interest on Banknote News for the Philippines