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Legal Tender

Here’s a 2000 peso bill I’ve acquired. The wikipedia article has all the info you need, including pictures – but I believe I currently have the better pictures/scans of it on the Internet.

Click on the items below for different views of the bill (or the image above for a larger version)

  1. Size compared to a 500 peso bill.
  2. Obverse (front) high resolution scan.
  3. Reverse (back) high resolution scan.
  4. Shot of the cylinder mould-made portrait watermark – which you can see when you put the bill against the light.
  5. High resolution scan of the Certificate of Issuance
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Google Earth


I’ve been knocking myself out with Google Earth recently. I found the activity of looking for some location from a generally “uncharted” map of the Philippines (it only goes as far as showing major cities) very engaging.

Still, there are some misgivings I have with it. First is the free version doesn’t allow you to draw polygons. I could understand why the Plus and Pro versions give you better network access, which is fair enough. But drawing custom shapes/polygons can be done locally in a machine, I wish they just enable it on the free version as well. Having the ability to input custom shapes to draw area perimeters is very useful especially in the Philippine context – because we have lousy Civil Engineers who make me wish there was some kind of SIM City feature in real life to just obliterate a chunk of area and replace it with properly distributed structures and roads. But I digress. Read More