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Corazon Aquino, the first female president of the Philippines, was added to the country’s 500 peso note (alongside her husband, politician Benigno Aquino Jr.) in 2009. Meanwhile, suffragette Josefa Llanes Escoda appears on the 1000 peso note.
Philippines' President Benigno 'Noynoy' Aquino III delivers a speech beside a portrait of his mother, late president Corazon 'Cory' Aquino, during a ceremony marking her first death anniversary in Manila August 1, 2010. Aquino, whose ouster of one of the 20th century's most corrupt dictators Ferdinand Marcos made her a global icon of democracy, died August 1, 2009 after a 16-month battle against colon cancer. She was 76. REUTERS/Aaron Favila/Pool (PHILIPPINES - Tags: POLITICS ANNIVERSARY) - RTR2GY4Q
Image: Philippines’ President Benigno ‘Noynoy’ Aquino III delivers a speech beside a portrait of his mother, late president Corazon ‘Cory’ Aquino, during a ceremony marking her first death anniversary in Manila August 1, 2010. REUTERS/Aaron Favila/Pool