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10 Pesos
| Issuer | Philippine National Bank (Iloilo Currency Committee) |
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| Year | 1941 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | The face is printed in black on a light pink guilloche underprint, with the denomination numeral '10' in red at each corner accompanied by 'PESOS' in red italic lettering. The issuer's name arches across the upper centre in bold letterpress, below which the promise-to-pay legend and denomination 'TEN PESOS' appear in large display type at centre. The Commonwealth of the Philippines seal is placed at the lower right, and three manuscript signatures of the Iloilo Currency Committee members — Provincial Auditor, Manager of the Philippine National Bank Iloilo (Chairman), and Provincial Fiscal — appear across the lower portion. |
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| Reverse lettering | TEN PESOS PHILIPPINE NATIONAL BANK ILOILO CITY PHILIPPINES DEC. 30, 1941 TEN PESOS EMERGENCY CIRCULATING NOTE 1941 |
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The Iloilo Currency Committee was one of several provincial emergency bodies that sprang up in the Philippines following the Japanese invasion in late 1941 and early 1942, issuing locally produced notes when the official banking system collapsed and the occupying forces cut off supply lines. The Philippine National Bank's Iloilo branch provided institutional backing in name, but these were improvised instruments — printed under extreme duress with whatever materials were available locally.
Iloilo City fell to Japanese forces in April 1942. Notes issued in the weeks and months before that fall circulated briefly and chaotically; afterward, Japanese military currency became the mandated medium of exchange, and the committee scrip was rendered worthless. Surviving examples are genuinely scarce, partly because holders had every reason to destroy them once the occupation began.