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.800 Silver, 20.0 Grams, ASW .5144 oz, 35 mm. Mintage 10,000 (The actual number of existing coins is far less as many of these coins were crated and thrown into Manila Bay, near Corregidor, in 1942 to avoid seizure by the invading forces of Japan.) NGC population 47/65, Combined (NGC, PCGS, ANACS) population 98/138. In 1936 the Manila Mint produced a set of three coins to commemorate the founding of the Commonwealth Of The Philippines on November 15,1935. The obverse design of the Roosevelt-Quezon Peso features portraits of the first Philippine President Manuel L. Quezon and U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt. This was the second appearance of a living U.S. President on a coin issued by the United States. The other was on the U.S. Sesquicentennial commemorative Half Dollar issued in 1926 on which living President Calvin Coolidge was portrayed. The reverse design of the Roosevelt-Quezon Peso depicts the official seal of "The Commonwealth of the Philippines".This NGC MS-64 specimen is a fully struck, untoned, fully brilliant Near GEM.