10 Centavos

Municipal emergency currency from the Japanese occupation of the Philippines. When the Japanese Military Administration's occupation pesos failed to reach every corner of the archipelago reliably, dozens of local governments and guerrilla units issued their own scrip to keep commerce moving. Calbiga, a small municipality in Samar, was one of them.

Samar saw some of the most sustained guerrilla resistance of the occupation, and locally issued notes from the island are among the harder Philippine emergency issues to trace — many were destroyed by their holders before Japanese forces could use possession as evidence.