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1 Peso
| Emittent | Guiuan, Municipality of |
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| Jahr | 1943 |
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| Währung | Peso (1941-1945) |
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| Vorderseitenbeschreibung | Uniface emergency war note printed in black letterpress on plain paper, dated July 15, 1943, with a small circular seal vignette at upper left and a red serial number at upper right. The denomination ONE PESO is set in large bold type at center, flanked by ornamental scroll devices and a boxed numeral '1' at lower right. Three signature lines at the bottom designate Mayor, Judge, and Treasurer, with the issuing authority and redemption pledge rendered in smaller text above. |
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| Rückseitenbeschreibung | The reverse displays a plain paper surface with a horizontal strip of lighter paper affixed across the center, bearing a single red line running its full length, likely applied as a rudimentary security or reinforcement measure. The surrounding area shows faint impressed text from the obverse letterpress printing, with no additional design elements. |
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| Anmerkungen |
Guiuan is a municipality on the southeastern tip of Samar island in the Philippines — and in 1943 it was under Japanese occupation. Like dozens of other Philippine municipalities during this period, local officials issued their own emergency currency to keep commerce functioning when both pre-war Commonwealth pesos and Japanese Military pesos failed to circulate reliably at the community level. These municipal guerrilla notes, as collectors broadly categorize them, were backed by nothing more than local authority and the expectation of eventual redemption.
Guiuan's geographic isolation made it a significant Allied staging point when U.S. forces returned to the Philippines in late 1944, which likely disrupted whatever redemption process the municipality had intended.