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10 Centavos
| Issuer | Antequera Change Board |
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| Year | 1943 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress-printed note on aged paper stock, with the issuer name and promise-to-pay text in black ink across the upper portion. A central oval vignette carries the denomination legend TEN CENTAVOS in black letterpress. Serial numbers are printed in red ink on either side of the central vignette, with additional text lines below referencing lawful currency of the Philippines and bearing member signatures at foot. |
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| Reverse description | Plain paper reverse with a large bold numeral 10 hand-stamped or letterpress-printed in black ink at centre, accompanied by two overlapping cursive manuscript signatures in black ink below. Faint blue ink manuscript notations appear along the left and right margins. |
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Antequera's local change boards — juntas de cambio — emerged across the Philippines during the Japanese occupation as a stopgap against the acute shortage of small denomination coinage. The Antequera Change Board in Bohol issued these centavo notes in 1943 when fractional currency had all but disappeared from everyday transactions, hoarded or melted down within months of the occupation beginning.
Provincial emergency issues from this period were produced with whatever materials were locally available, and print quality varies dramatically even within a single series. No Pick number has been firmly assigned, which reflects how incompletely documented the smaller Bohol municipal issues remain.