Catalog
10 Pesos
| Issuer | Negros Occidental Currency Committee / Philippine National Bank |
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| Year | 1941 |
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| Value | 10 Pesos |
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| Obverse lettering | PHILIPPINE NATIONAL BANK EMERGENCY CIRCULATING NOTE OF 1941 THE PHILIPPINE NATIONAL BANK WILL PAY THE BEARER ON DEMAND TEN PESOS IN LAWFUL CURRENCY OF THE PHILIPPINES ISSUED BY AUTHORITY OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF THE PHILIPPINES NEGROS OCCIDENTAL CURRENCY COMMITTEE SERIES OF 1941 |
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| Reverse lettering | TEN PESOS PHILIPPINE NATIONAL BANK EMERGENCY CIRCULATING NOTE Issued by authority of the President of the Commonwealth of the Philippines |
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The Negros Occidental emergency notes of 1941–42 were produced after the Japanese invasion cut off the islands from Manila and the national banking system. Local governments and committees across the Visayas scrambled to issue their own currency to prevent economic paralysis — Negros Occidental among the more organized of these efforts, backed in name by the Philippine National Bank's regional authority.
Filma Press was a local commercial printer, not a security printer, which shows in the notes. Counterfeiting was a known problem with the entire Visayan emergency series, and distinguishing genuine issues from contemporary forgeries remains one of the practical difficulties in collecting these pieces.