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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Hommer, post: 3400775, member: 73266&quot;]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&nbsp; 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.</p><p>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.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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