What can you say about our new Philippine Money?

[wizard_jamex]

---

Philippines defends error-filled peso notes


MANILA, Dec 20, 2010 (AFP) – The Philippines on Monday defended its new peso notes, mocked by critics for featuring error-strewn maps of the country and apparently inventing a new species of parrot.
The central bank started shipping the bills to banks last Friday and they should be publicly available by Christmas, deputy governor Diwa Gunigundo said.


He defended the artistic rendition of Philippine maps appearing on the 20-, 50-, 100-, 200-, 500-, and 1,000-peso notes (45 US cents-22.59 dollars), which excluded the Batanes islands near Taiwan and misplaced some of the country's top tourist draws.


"If we want to make the Philippine map that specific and accurate we would have had to draw all 7,000 islands," Gunigundo said in an interview on DZBB radio.


"What we wanted to do was abstract the general location of all these important parts of the Philippines," he said.Map makers, including one of the experts drafted to delineate the boundaries of the Tubbataha Reefs natural park in 1994, have pointed out that the spectacular coral formation was misplaced by hundreds of kilometres (miles).


Gunigundo also defended the rendering of a rare native bird, the blue-naped parrot, on the 500-peso bill, saying it was patterned after the yellow colour scheme of the denomination.The Wild Bird Club of the Philippines, a birdwatchers' organisation, has insisted the yellow-beaked parrot on the note does not exist anywhere in the country, since in real life the blue-naped parrot has a red beak."It took us three years to research (the design)," Gunigundo said, brushing off allegations of slipshod preparation.
The head of the government's National Historical Institute was an adviser to the bank's numismatic committee, he added.

"Our local artists who designed our six denominations also did research and they consulted many of our experts in the Philippines."


More important than the design are the new bills' security features to make their duplication by counterfeiters much more difficult, Gunigundo said.


It is not the first time the central bank has been left red-faced over currency design. It was forced in 2005 to withdraw bills that misspelled the name of Gloria Arroyo, the predecessor of current President Benigno Aquino, whose signature appears on the new legal tender.


The 2005 bill, which called her Gloria Arrovo, became a much sought-after collectors' item.


Source : [IMG]file:///C:/DOCUME%7E1/DATOKO%7E1/LOCALS%7E1/Temp/moz-screenshot-2.png[/IMG][IMG]file:///C:/DOCUME%7E1/DATOKO%7E1/LOCALS%7E1/Temp/moz-screenshot-3.png[/IMG]http://ph.news.yahoo.com/afp/20101220/tap-philippines-bank-currency-offbeat-5cc1ef8.html

[miyay]

for me lang ha. mas importante ang additional security features kay daghan na counterfeit na nakacirculate.

[franzziss]

neshem, sakto ka bro..naa gihapon si gloria, og davide sa 200. naa sa atubangan.

Luoya ni Gloria ui. Natabunan pa gyud sa A.

[makie]

LMFAO on the criticisms. So will these so called "critics" push for a change in the new bills? For what grounds? Color of the bird? Ridiculous. Wala man gani nireklamo si GMA nga halos di siya makita, kani hinuon ang bird society nga tungod lang sa parrot?

I'm wondering if they deserve to be called critics, "papapel" might fit them well. The reason why the bills were changed is because of security reasons, not aesthetic ones.

[passerby25]

para nako ok raman ang layout sa new bills nato..masabtan raman pud na naa juy differences gamay kay tungod naay mga limitations sa pag himo especially sa pag combine sa mga colors..

[Dako Ang Imo...]

LMFAO on the criticisms. So will these so called "critics" push for a change in the new bills? For what grounds? Color of the bird? Ridiculous. Wala man gani nireklamo si GMA nga halos di siya makita, kani hinuon ang bird society nga tungod lang sa parrot?

I'm wondering if they deserve to be called critics, "papapel" might fit them well. The reason why the bills were changed is because of security reasons, not aesthetic ones.

Whahahahahahahahaha!

[Dee_Dee]

Luoya ni Gloria ui. Natabunan pa gyud sa A.

dili na si Gloria ang natabunan sa "A" bro, kadto ng bata nga gadala sa bible.

anyway..ang reason sa mga so called critics is i think more on education. kay ma mis inform lang kuno ang mga tawo regarding facts. naa pud silay gi criticize about sa spelling sa mga scientific name sa mga animals..dili kuno mao pagkasulat.

on other side..for me, as far as cebu is concern, ambot ngano nawala naman sa 50 pesos ang "fountain" sa fuente osmeña. leyte landing naman ang gipuli. security reasons ba pud kaha? well..apil pud nuon si osmeña diha galakaw uban ni macarthur.

[emb_ventures]

nindota sa bag-o na kwarta....ako na diay pailisan ni akong bills kay mawagtang na ni iya value