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COIN HAILS ’86 REVOLT

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The Central Bank has announced it will issue a $385 gold coin to commemorate the "people power" revolt that toppled the late President Ferdinand Marcos and catapulted Corazon Aquino to power in 1986.

A bank statement issued Friday said the coin would go on sale Monday, the sixth anniversary of the revolt.A portrait of Aquino is displayed on one side of the coin. The other side bears a map of the Philippines, a dove, laurel leaves and a scroll of the Philippine constitution, the bank said.