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10 Centavos
| Issuer | Municipality of Loon |
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| Year | 1943 |
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| Value | 10 Centavos (0.10) |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress-printed wartime emergency certificate on coarse plain paper stock, aged to a warm ochre tone, with the denomination numeral '10' repeated in the upper left and upper right corners flanking a red serial number on either side. The central text block carries the full redemption legend above the value designation 'TEN CENTAVOS' set within a framed panel, with the year '1943' printed above it. Three manuscript signatures appear at the foot beneath the printed role designations 'Auditor', 'Chairman', and 'Member', with additional blue ink manuscript notations overlaying the face. |
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| Obverse lettering | THE MUNICIPALITY OF LOON WILL REDEEM THIS CERTIFICATE OF 1943 TEN CENTAVOS PAYABLE TO THE BEARER ON DEMAND |
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Loon is a municipality on the island of Bohol in the central Philippines. During the Japanese occupation, the national government's currency system collapsed at the local level, and hundreds of municipalities across the archipelago issued their own emergency guerrilla or civil notes to keep small transactions functioning. Loon's 10 centavos issue from 1943 is one of these hyper-local wartime scrip pieces — authorized and redeemable only within the issuing municipality's jurisdiction.
Philippine municipal emergency notes from this period vary enormously in printing quality and survival rates, as most were produced on whatever materials were available and redeemed or destroyed when regular currency was restored after liberation in 1944–45.