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1 Peso
| Issuer | Negros Emergency Currency Board |
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| Year | 1943 |
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| Reference(s) | P#S661 |
| Obverse description | Letterpress-printed in red with a decorative guilloche border framing the central text. A green circular official seal of the Commonwealth of the Philippines appears at the right. Three signature lines are printed at the lower portion, identifying the Acting Treasurer, Governor (Chairman), and Provincial Auditor as members of the Negros Emergency Currency Board, with a serial number in green below the main legend. |
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| Reverse description | Plain paper stock with a simple letterpress-printed decorative border in green composed of repeated ornamental units. The central denomination inscription is rendered in large bold green type, with the value repeated in smaller text at each corner within vertical side panels. |
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| Comments |
The Negros Emergency Currency Board was one of several provincial and municipal bodies that issued guerrilla currency in the Philippines during the Japanese occupation. These notes were produced to keep the resistance economy functioning after the Philippine Commonwealth peso was disrupted — and to deny the Japanese Military Administration's peso any further traction in the interior. Negros Occidental had enough organizational capacity and sugar-industry infrastructure to sustain a functioning parallel economy for much of the occupation.
S661 notes are among the more frequently encountered Negros issues, but wartime paper and improvised storage conditions mean genuinely sound examples are harder to find than raw survival numbers suggest.