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1 Peso
| Issuer | Province of Ilocos Norte |
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| Year | 1942 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Typeset letterpress text in black on plain paper, with a violet rubber-stamp overprint at centre. The upper portion bears the issuing authority and place-date line "Ilocos Norte, June 15, 1942", followed by the certifying text in a justified block. Three manuscript signatures appear below the body text, attributed to the Provincial Treasurer, Provincial Auditor, and Governor respectively, with corner value indicators reading "P1.00" on all four edges. |
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| Obverse lettering | EMERGENCY TREASURY CERTIFICATE THE COMMONWEALTH OF THE PHILIPPINES PROVINCE OF ILOCOS NORTE Ilocos Norte, June 15, 1942 THIS IS TO CERTIFY THAT THE ISSUANCE of this emergency certificate for the amount of ONE PESO has been duly authorized by the President of the Philippines and is redeemable after the war. FIFTH SERIES Prov. Treasurer Prov. Auditor Governor ONE PESO P1.001 |
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One of dozens of provincial guerrilla and emergency currency issues produced across the Philippine Islands after the Japanese occupation severed normal banking. Ilocos Norte, on the northwestern tip of Luzon, issued its own emergency notes in 1942 under the authority of the provincial government as the Commonwealth peso supply collapsed and Japanese military pesos were being forced into circulation.
These provincial issues were produced under improvised conditions — local paper, local presses — and survival rates vary sharply by province. Ilocos Norte examples tend to show foxing and paper weakness consistent with wartime tropical storage.