Melecio Figueroa

Melecio Figueroa (Tagalog pronunciation: [fɪɡɛˈɾoʊa]) (1842-1903) was a Filipino sculptor and engraver whose design was featured in a previous coin series of the Philippine peso.

The Ayuntamiento of Manila selected him at age 16 as one of the two Filipino artists to be sent to Spain[2] on a scholarship sponsored by Francisco Ahujas, a consul based in the Philippines.

[2] In 1892, he returned to the Philippines to teach engraving at the Escuela de Pintura, Escultura y Grabado in Manila as a professor.

At the Exposicion de Filipinas in 1887 held in Madrid, he served as a judge and also designed the medals awarded at the event.

His surviving child, Blanca, was born while they were en route to the Philippines by ship in 1892, and later served as a model for some of her father's coinage designs.