1944 twenty centavos Filipinas United States of America. Does anyone have any?

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Interesting that you refer to these as foreign coins, Ken.

I've always thought of them as US coins, since they were issued by the US government and say "United States of America" prominently on the obverse. I have several, and I store them with my US collection.

What say others? Are these foreign coins or US coins?

 

The Filipinas means woman I believe. And it says united states if America. And made in Denver. It's a American coin.

 

From 1898 to 1946, the Philippines were a U.S. Territory, so I would say these are U.S. coins.

If the Philippines were still a territory today, they would get an ATB quarter

 

I've always considered them US coins. This also means that if one is trying to collect one coin from each US mint, they must include a USPI example from the "M"anila mint.

 

I found a 1944 10 centavos last year CRH

 

Don’t ya just love the smoking volcano

 

I believe it was considered US Territorial coinage.

 

i consider them foreign coins as i dont believe they were ever official US currency nor distributed to US banks for distribution to the public, and i also dont consider a temporary US territory as being part of the United States...

 

The coins were not denominated in Dollars/Cents, and were not legal tender for use on the US mainland.

 

A variety of the 20 Centavos that is not often seen. The 1928M, or more correctly the 1928/7M. This coin is known as a mule. A mule is a coin that has a design intended for another coin. In this case the obverse(side with date) is from a 1927
5 Centavos die since there were no 1928 20 Centavos dies. Mintage was a low 100,000.

 

When I got home from the antique mall visit today, I looked up my acquisition. I think this thread was the second result on the search. It looks nice up close but there’s some gunk around the year. I don’t know if it’s been dipped or cleaned and I haven’t yet taken it out of the flip but, I dig it and am wondering about it also.

 

They are listed in the Red Book as Philippines under U.S. Sovereignty so I guess one could consider them as both. They make for an interesting type set. I put one together a while back. I'll upload and post a link later.

https://issuu.com/mikelarson2/docs/philippines_type_set_36476bf873c69b

I can provide a PDF copy if anyone interested.

 

I tried to get a better shot outside of the plastic but yeah, not totally representative of what it looks like between my gloved fingers.