Coins not made to circulate in the US

It's interesting (to me at least) that the Philippines are the only one. I would have bet money that there were other similar coins in Puerto Rico or Guam or Hawaii or some such U.S. territory but Google tells me there aren't any. That's cool.

BTW, I have 3 of those Filipino coins myself; I got them from my Granddad.

 

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One of the main reasons for the Philippine coins was that they had been under Spanish rule for 375 years before the US took control as a part of the reparations from the Spanish American War. The Native people resented the American control and were accustom to the Spanish Peso for their currency. So to try and keep things civil, the US introduced the Philippine Peso.
In Puerto Rico though they also were under Spanish rule for 400 years, the people there were more forgiving to American rule and begged the government for statehood. The US granted Porto Rico (spelling changed by the US) people citizenship in 1917 but not Statehood.

 

Yet Puerto Rico has had several elections on the question as whether to apply for statehood and statehood always gets voted down. They have voted on the matter four times and the first three time statehood was voted down. In the most recent one applying for statehood was approved overwhelmingly.

 

Yes, we made them for Hawaii, Alaska, Guam, American Samoa, US Virgin Islands, Northern Mariana Islands and Puerto Rico.

 

@LA_Geezer,
Mine also