Did you know that the US Mint produced the coins of the Philippines from 1903 to 1945?
Coinage was first produced in 1903 at the Philadelphia and San Francisco Mints. Philadelphia pieces lack a mintmark, while San Francisco coins have a little letter S beneath the dot on the back.
For the silver coins (ten, twenty and fifty centavos, plus the one-peso piece), the standing figure of an adolescent female was utilized. She is clad in a long, flowing gown and holds in her right hand a hammer resting atop an anvil, as seen on the minor coins. Behind her is Mt. Mayon, an almost perfectly conical volcanic mountain northeast of the capital city of Manila. These designs are credited to Filipino sculptor Melecio Figueroa, who lived just long enough to see his coins enter circulation.
Source:Coinsite
All of these coins had the same reverse design, which featured the federal shield above an American eagle holding arrows in its left claw and an olive branch in its right. United States of America and the coinage date appeared around it.
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