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1 Peso
| Issuer | Free Negros Military Currency Committee / 7th Military District / Army of the U.S.A. |
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| Year | 1943 |
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| Currency | Philippine Peso (1903-date) |
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| Obverse description | Plain white note with a bold letterpress design arranged within a bordered frame of repeating ornamental devices. The central text reads 'MILITARY SCRIP OF 1943 / THE Army of the United States of America / Will Pay To The Bearer On Demand / ONE PESO' in graduated typefaces, with 'Peso' printed vertically in the left and right margins alongside large numeral '1' corner devices. Below the denomination, two lines of small text cite lawful currency authority of the United States or the Philippines, issued by authority of the Commander in Chief of the South West Pacific, 7th Military District, above the caption 'FREE NEGROS MILITARY CURRENCY COMMITTEE' and three manuscript signatures with printed role designations. |
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| Reverse lettering | ARMY OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA ONE PESO 1 |
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Philippine guerrilla currency from the Japanese occupation period. The 7th Military District covered Negros Island, where anti-Japanese resistance maintained enough organization to issue functioning local scrip — not propaganda, but working currency used to pay guerrilla forces and facilitate commerce in areas outside Japanese control. These notes circulated alongside, and in direct competition with, Japanese-issued "Mickey Mouse money," which the population widely distrusted.
Survival rates for Negros guerrilla issues are uneven. Some denominations were printed in very limited runs on whatever paper was available locally, and many were deliberately destroyed before Japanese forces could use captured scrip to identify resistance networks.