New Philippine Peso Bills: Currency of Hope and Change

 

            I like the new design of our Peso Bills even though some errors have been the subject of ridicule of some critics in social networking sites and tri-media in its first emergence. Critics will always be critics. I've summarized some of these "errors" because of my curiosity... 

1. Exclusion of Batanes from the Philippine map on the reverse of all denominations

2. The mislocation of the Puerto Pricesa Subterranean Underground River on the reverse of 500-peso bill

3. The mislocation of Tubbataha Reef on the 1000-peso bill

4. The incorrect coloring in the beak & feathers of the blue-naped parrot on the reverse of 500-peso bill

5. The scientific names of the featured animals on the reverse sides of all denominations were incorrectly written

            Scientific names are written in binomial nomenclature where the first letter of the first word (which is the genus) should be capitalized and the second word (which is the species name) should be written all in lower-case letters. Scientific names are conventionally written in italicized form. In the case of how the scientific names were written on the reverse of all denominations, both the first letters of the genus and species name were capitalized and not written in italicized form.

Wrong Scientific Name:

Genus Species

Correct Scientific Name:

Genus species

            Honestly, with these errors I've learned the locations of some of some of our tourist spots, the real color of a parrot and the correct way of writing scientific names. I’m not saying that we ignore these errors. Well, for me, there's nothing too much to worry about with these errors. Maybe these can be rectified in the near future. (I presumed that it would cost a lot of money to change it right now.) What is important is that we are aware of these errors.   We have to learn our lessons to avoid it next time. After all, the main objectives of the BSP when they announced their plan to change the design of our peso-bills (that was in 2009) is the enhanced security features and improved durability of the bills.

Sources:

philmoney.blogspot.com

wikipedia.com