JAA USA/Philippines Type Set Collection
Peso 1936 Roosevelt & Quezon


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Set Details
Origin/Country: United States
Design Description: PHILIPPINES UNDER U.S. SOVEREIGNTY COMMONWEALTH COMMEMORATIVE
Item Description: SILVER PESO 1936 M USA-PHIL ROOSEVELT-QUEZON KM-177
Grade: NGC MS 66
Owner: JAA
 
Winning Set: JAA USA/Philippines Type Set Collection
Date Added: 1/14/2011
Research: See NGC's Census Report for this Coin

Owner's Description

.900 Silver, 20.0 Grams, 35 mm. 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".The mintage of the 1936M Roosevelt-Quezon Peso was 10,000 coins, however, 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. The NGC population of the Roosevelt-Quezon Peso in MS66 is 16 coins with none graded higher. The combined (NGC, PCGS, ANACS) population of this coin in MS66 is 45 coins with only one specimen graded higher. This NGC MS66 specimen is a fully struck, untoned, fully brilliant SUPERB GEM.

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