Owner Comments:
This coin was minted by the Philippine Mint in Manila (a branch of the US Mint). It features the same basic design of the previous years, with just minor changes. This coin was the third of the Culion series of coins and due to the problems suffered by the previous aluminum coins, cupro-nickel was used this time as it was expected to survive longer.
The obverse shows the coin's denomination on the center--a large number "1" and "PESO" below it. Around the coin are the words "CULION LEPER COLONY" on top, and "PHILIPPINE ISLANDS" at the bottom. The inscription groups are separated by a pair of stars. The coin's mint mark, a counter-stamped "PhM" (for Philippine Mint) is located at the center between the denomination. The "M" is in the form of circle which surrounds the letters "Ph".
The reverse bears the caduceus symbol surrounded on the outer rim by the words "PHILIPPINE HEALTH SERVICE" and the coin's date, "1922" on the bottom. A pair of stars separates the inscriptions.
Two known varieties of this issue are known: The more common straight wings variety, and the scarcer curved wings variety.
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This coin is the straight wings variety and is an average coin which unfortunately, suffered the fate of a heavy-handed cleaning as evidenced on each side. I had this coin in my collection and I sent it in for encapsulation so I can have a specimen for the registry. I am hoping to get a better one in the near future.
⚙️ Coin Specifications and Information
Composition: Copper-nickel
Weight: 13.37 gm
Diameter: 35.2 mm
Edge: Plain
Alignment: ⬆️ ⬇️
Mintage: 8,280
KM# 16
📆 This Year In Philippine History
On July 3, 1922, the first official ROTC unit in the Philippines was established in the University of the Philippines.
Reserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC) in the Philippines is one of three components of the National Service Training Program, the civic education and defense preparedness program for Filipino college students. ROTC aims to provide military education and training for students to mobilize them for national defense preparedness. Its specific objectives include preparation of college students for service in the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) in the event of an emergency and their training to become reservists and potential commissioned officers of the AFP.
ROTC student-cadets attend college like other students, but also receive basic military training and officer training from the branch of service that handles their school's ROTC unit. The students participate in regular ROTC instruction during the school year (one school year for Basic ROTC student-cadets and three school years for Advance ROTC cadet-officers), and extended training activities during the summer, such as the ROTC Summer Camp Training (RSCT) and the Advance ROTC Academic Phase Training (ARAPT).
ROTC in the Philippines began in 1912 when the Philippine Constabulary commenced with military instruction at the University of the Philippines. The university's Board of Regents then made representations to the United States Department of War through the Governor-General and received the services of a United States Army officer who took on the duties of a professor of Military Science. It was through this arrangement that the first official ROTC unit in the Philippines was established.
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📖 Information sources:
Shafer, N. (1961). United States Territorial Coinage for the Philippine Islands. Whitman Publishing Company.
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