| 1. Mickey mouse notes were the yen notes. 2. You don't/cant educate people timely on a new money. Peso is peso in Philippines, the time period, shy of 40 years Philippines went from Spain, American to Japanese Custodianship. Too many changes == not accepted. 3. Local printing, typetext and fonts. It isn't like today where you can use comic sans immediately and change it in post. It used to all be done by hand in a printing press. What's also interesting is you can still find silver pesos around Luzon diving, there's also this good story: http://corregidor.org/chs_trident/silver/hubbell_01.htm If you ever have a chance to visit the Philippines, I highly suggest looking for pesos. :) I found so many, and all the locals I talk to don't know the story or history, most don't really know their history at all... But +1 on infrastructure projects and such. Philippines also reissued the pesos coins, and they, suck, the 1 and 5 peso coin are similar in diameter and size, there is no color difference as previous currency it was gold color and silver color (not metals), and for a while, people were confused which were which -- getting change means you'd get 15 pesos back instead of 3! Also, they are now following the ASEAN style of design with flowers and local "treasures" on the coins. The locals I talk with didn't really know there was a national plant -- always fun! |