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1 Peso
| Issuer | Free Negros Military Currency Committee |
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| Year | 1943 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse lettering | MILITARY SCRIPT OF 1943 THE ARMY OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA WILL PAY TO THE BEARER ON DEMAND ONE PESO IN LAWFUL CURRENCY OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA OR OF THE PHILIPPINES ISSUED BY AUTHORITY OF THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF OF THE SOUTH WEST PACIFIC 7TH MILITARY DISTRICT FREE NEGROS MILITARY CURRENCY COMMITTEE |
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| Reverse lettering | ARMY OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA ONE PESO |
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The Free Negros Military Currency Committee was one of several provincial guerrilla currency authorities operating in the Visayas during the Japanese occupation of the Philippines. These emergency issues were authorized under the broader framework of guerrilla resistance finance — local commanders needed a medium of exchange that their populations would accept and Japanese-issued Mickey Mouse money could not fill. Negros Island sustained unusually organized resistance throughout the occupation, which gave its emergency currency more genuine circulation than most.
The S715 series is among the harder Negros issues to find in collectible condition, largely because it actually circulated under difficult tropical conditions rather than sitting in military reserve.