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10 Centavos
| Issuer | Headquarters Volunteer Service Corps, USAFFE, Pambujan Sur, Samar |
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| Year | 1942 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress-printed emergency guerrilla note on plain paper, with repeated denomination '10¢' forming a solid border pattern along all four margins. The central text block carries the issuing authority, place, and date in black typeface, with a large bold '10¢' numeral at right centre. Two violet circular official handstamps are applied over the face, with three manuscript signatures below, attributed to the Finance Officer, Commanding Officer, and Adjutant respectively. |
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| Protection description | Violet circular official handstamp applied on both obverse and reverse, reading 'Headquarters Volunteer Service Corps' with a central device, used as authentication for this wartime emergency issue. |
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One of hundreds of emergency guerrilla currency issues produced across the Philippine islands following the Japanese occupation of 1942, this note was issued by a local volunteer unit operating under the United States Army Forces in the Far East command structure. The USAFFE umbrella gave these local issues a thin veneer of military legitimacy, though in practice each issuing body improvised with whatever printing and paper resources were at hand.
Pambujan Sur, a small municipality on the northern coast of Samar, was sufficiently remote to sustain a degree of resistance activity. The handstamp security feature reflects the near-total absence of formal printing infrastructure — authentication was a matter of a rubber stamp and local trust.