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1 Centavo
| Issuer | Calape Emergency Currency Board |
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| Year | 1943 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Uniface emergency certificate printed in black letterpress on plain paper, with a decorative border of repeated ampersand symbols framing the entire note. The central text block carries the redemption pledge in English, with the denomination value hand-stamped or overprinted in red; two red serial numbers appear at the left and right of the middle register. Signatures of the Member, Chairman, and Treasurer of the Calape Emergency Currency Board appear in manuscript ink along the lower portion. |
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| Reverse description | Plain paper reverse divided into a light grid pattern, bearing two large manuscript signatures in blue-black ink applied across the surface, with a faint stain near the centre. No printed text or ornamental elements are present. |
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Calape is a municipality on Bohol Island in the Philippines. Emergency currency boards proliferated across the Philippine provinces after the Japanese occupation severed access to Commonwealth currency, with local authorities issuing their own notes to keep commerce functioning. Bohol produced several such series in 1943, most printed on whatever paper was available — school supplies, ledger stock, even rice paper in some cases.
Survival rates for Bohol emergency notes are highly uneven. The 1 centavo denomination was the most expendable in daily use, handled constantly and rarely saved. Low-denomination survivors from Calape are correspondingly harder to locate than the higher values from the same board.