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| Issuer | Emergency Currency Board, Maribojoc Municipality |
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| Year | 1944 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Plain typeset emergency note printed in black on light paper, with a simple ruled rectangular border. The denomination TEN CENTAVOS appears in bold lettering at centre, flanked on each side by the serial number 3135, with the issuing authority text above and below. Three manuscript signatures appear along the lower margin, attributed to a Chairman at centre and two Members at left and right. |
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| Obverse lettering | THE MARIBOJOC MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENT WILL REDEEM THIS CERTIFICATE OF 1944 TEN CENTAVOS ISSUED BY EMERGENCY CURRENCY BOARD MEMBER / CHAIRMAN / MEMBER |
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Maribojoc is a small coastal municipality on Bohol island, and its wartime emergency scrip belongs to one of the most fragmented currency phenomena of the Pacific War. Following the Japanese occupation of the Philippines, local governments — municipalities, provinces, and guerrilla units — issued their own paper currency out of necessity, with no central coordination. The Emergency Currency Board designation was a loose legal framework, not a standardized institution; dozens of municipalities used the same title while operating entirely independently.
Bohol's guerrilla resistance remained unusually organized throughout the occupation, and local scrip issued there was often backed by informal commodity guarantees rather than nothing at all. Whether this specific note falls within that guerrilla-connected network or was purely civilian municipal issue is not always traceable note by note.