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1 Peso Blue seal
| Issuer | Negros Emergency Currency Board |
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| Year | 1944 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Plain salmon-pink paper with all text printed in black letterpress within a simple ruled border. The denomination ONE PESO is set in large bold type at centre, with the full redemption clause and issuing authority text arranged in justified paragraphs above and below. A circular blue official seal of the Commonwealth of the Philippines is applied at right, accompanied by a blue serial number and three manuscript signatures above their respective printed role designations: Actg. Treas.-Member, Gov.-Chairman, and Prov. Aud.-Member. |
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| Reverse description | Entirely printed in blue on plain salmon-pink paper, the reverse carries a simple typeset and letterpress design within a double ruled rectangular frame. The central panel bears the denomination legend in large stacked type, flanked at each corner by numeral "1" cartouches with small heraldic lion vignettes, and "ONE PESO" inscriptions at lower left and lower right. |
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The Negros Emergency Currency Board was one of several provincial guerrilla currency authorities that issued notes during the Japanese occupation of the Philippines. Negros Occidental, relatively isolated and with an active resistance network, managed to sustain a functioning local economy partly through these emissions. The blue seal on this series distinguished it from concurrent Negros issues and from the red-seal variants in the same Pick sequence.
Guerrilla currency from Negros is among the more systematically documented of the Philippine resistance issues, but attrition from wartime use, humidity, and deliberate destruction after liberation means surviving examples skew heavily toward poor condition.