Obverse: 5 Pesos circa 1921 (American regime) issued by the Philippine National Bank.
Reverse: literally wiped-out. In close up, some characters are still recognizable, though.
Is there anything good that came out of the recently atrocious event which can only be depicted by grotesque scenes of waist-deep floods brought about by the "enhanced" southwest monsoon that hit Metro Manila? Could you think of one? Was there any silver lining? For me, there's one. My mom "rediscovered" these really old Philippine paper bills from my grandfather's collection! Yey!