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Philippine peso
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official currency of the Philippines
The Philippine peso is the official money used in the Philippines for buying and selling goods and services. It matters because it's what people in the Philippines use every day for their financial transactions and economic activity.
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- peso
- Country
- Philippines
- Image
- Php bill 100 front UP Centennial.jpg
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- price
- 0.0174654
- central bank/issuer
- Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas
- Commons category
- Money of the Philippines
- start time
- 1852-05-01
- currency sign
- peso sign
- unit symbol
- ₱
- applies to jurisdiction
- Philippines
- different from
- PHP
- topic has template
- Template:PHP
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Encyclopedic overview
The Philippine peso, also referred to by its Filipino name piso (Philippine English: /ˈpɛsɔː/ PEH-saw, /ˈpiː-/ PEE-, plural pesos; Filipino: piso [ˈpisɔː, ˈpɪsɔː]; sign: ₱; code: PHP), is the official currency of the Philippines. It is subdivided into 100 sentimo, also called centavos.
The peso has the symbol "₱", introduced during American rule in place of the original peso sign "$" used throughout Spanish America. Alternative symbols used are "PHP", "PhP", "Php", or just "P".
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Philippine peso” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.