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1 Peso
| Issuer | Negros Emergency Currency Board |
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| Year | 1945 |
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| Value | 1 Peso |
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| Obverse description | Printed in red on plain paper stock, the face carries a decorative geometric border enclosing the full text of the emergency currency authorization, with the large bold denomination ONE PESO at center. A circular green Commonwealth of the Philippines official seal is applied at the right, and the serial number appears in green ink below the denomination. Three manuscript signatures of board members — Acting Treasurer, Governor (Chairman), and Acting Auditor — appear along the lower portion. |
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| Reverse description | Printed in green on plain paper, the reverse presents a simple typographic design with the large bold inscription ONE PHILIPPINES PESO at center. A repeating guilloche-style geometric border frames all four sides, with the denomination ONE PESO repeated in the four corners and PESO lettered vertically along both side borders. |
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The Negros Emergency Currency Board was one of several provincial bodies that issued guerrilla currency in the Philippines during the Japanese occupation, authorized under the civil government-in-exile framework backed by the Commonwealth. These notes were not informal scrip — they carried legal tender status within their respective jurisdictions and were used to pay soldiers, buy supplies, and sustain civilian administration while the Japanese military peso was simultaneously being forced into circulation by the occupation authorities.
The 1945 date places this note in the final phase of that parallel economy, issued as MacArthur's return campaign was already underway in the archipelago.