The history of these coins is that just before the Japanese invaded the Philippine Island, the Philippine government collected all the Philippine coins they could find and put it aboard a barge or ship with only one person. That person took all the coinage out to sea and dumped it so the Japanese could not get their hands on the silver coins. The Japanese captured this person and tortured him to death, yet he never told them where he had dumped all that coinage.

So this 1909 Philippine Peso, minted in the United States of America, has a deep part of history during World War II.

The rusted 1909 Philippine ONE PESO coin was personally handed to Alvin L. Lakin, Jr., during the month of August, 1956 in metro Manila, Republic of the Philippines.

Of note, the August 18, 1956 Mexia Daily News paper from Mexia, TX published an article stating that there was a bus accident south of Manila that resulted in 14 persons killed and 37 seriously injured. The bus was filled mainly with students and the crash occurred because the bus was racing another bus and overturned in a ditch.