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10 Centavos
| Issuer | Clarin Emergency Board |
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| Year | 1943 |
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| Value | 10 Centavos (0.20) |
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| Obverse lettering | 10 CLARIN EMERGENCY BOARD WILL PAY UPON DEMAND SERIES OF 1943 11485 11485 CEN 10 TAVOS CIRCULATION & REDEMPTION CLARIN, TUBIGON & CALAPE 10 CHAIR MEMBER MEMBER 10 |
| Reverse description | Plain unprinted paper reverse with a large, boldly stamped numeral 10 in black ink towards the right-center, serving as a simplified denomination overprint. The remainder of the surface is undecorated, showing the natural aged tone of the wartime emergency paper stock. |
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Emergency currency boards proliferated across the Philippines during the Japanese occupation, as the Japanese Military Administration's peso notes failed to command confidence and small change effectively vanished from circulation. Local municipalities, cooperatives, and private enterprises were permitted — or simply took it upon themselves — to issue fractional emergency notes to keep retail commerce moving. The Clarin Emergency Board was one of dozens of such local issuers operating in the Visayas region.
Guerrilla currency and municipal scrip from this period vary wildly in survival rates. Notes from smaller Visayan communities were often printed on whatever paper was available and rarely survived the war intact.