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10 Centavos

Issuer Emergency Currency Board, Municipality of Maribojoc
Year 1944
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Value 10 Centavos (0.10)
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Obverse description Plain letterpress-printed emergency issue on coarse paper, with text arranged in horizontal registers across the face. Serial number 1356 appears at left and right of the central text block, and the numeral 10 is printed at the upper corners and lower corners. Three signature lines at the bottom are designated Member, Chairman, and Member respectively.
Obverse lettering THE MARIBOJOC MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENT WILL REDEEM THIS CERTIFICATE OF 1944 TEN (10) CENTAVOS ISSUED BY EMERGENCY CURRENCY BOARD
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Philippine emergency and guerrilla currency from the Japanese occupation period is well-documented as a category, but municipal-level issues from small Visayan towns like Maribojoc — a coastal municipality in Bohol — are among the most obscure pieces in the entire Philippine emergency note series. The Currency Board authority was a wartime local government mechanism, not a banking institution, which meant these notes circulated on communal trust alone within a very limited geographic area.

Bohol saw relatively limited direct Japanese military presence compared to Cebu or Leyte, which likely helped small denominations like this actually function as daily transaction currency rather than emergency scrip that went unspent.

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