Wednesday, February 8, 2012

Fake Jose Rizal 150 pesos

150 Rizal banknote

The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) just release a warning advise today via their website about the Fake Jose Rizal 150 pesos Banknote.  BSP has never issued nor is planning to issue such type of banknote. Therefore, any 150-Piso commemorative note or similar banknote is fictitious. The public is advised to report anyone passing such 150-Piso fictitious notes to the police authorities and/or to the Investigation Division, Cash Department, Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas, Security Plant Complex, East Avenue, Diliman, Quezon City through telephone numbers 926-5092 and 929-7071 local 618 or via e-mail through bspmail@bsp.gov.ph.

The only Commemorative BSP released for 150th years of Jose Rizal Birthday is a 1 piso Jose Rizal Commemorative coin last December. For anyone who don't know, the National Hero of the Philippines, was born on June 19th, 1861 and 2011 marks the 150th anniversary of his birth. I like the idea of 150 pesos banknote and that will be a perfect commemorative notes, if they exist. Since BSP already announced that this banknote never exist, we can only dreaming about it. I read in some forum, this note are actual design submitted to BSP but never release into production. We can read so many thing about it but if they don't exist, we cannot collect them, right.

Source: www.bsp.gov.ph