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10 Pesos
| Issuer | Bohol Emergency Currency Board |
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| Year | 1942 |
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| Value | 10 Pesos |
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| Obverse lettering | TREASURY EMERGENCY CURRENCY CERTIFICATE BY AUTHORITY OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES THIS CERTIFIES THAT THE GOVERNMENT OF THE PHILIPPINES WILL REDEEM THIS CERTIFICATE OF 1942 AT FACE VALUE UPON TERMINATION OF EMERGENCY TEN PESOS PAYABLE TO THE BEARER ON DEMAND IN LAWFUL CURRENCY OF THE PHILIPPINES BOHOL EMERGENCY CURRENCY BOARD ACTG PROV. TREAS. MEMBER PROV. AUDITOR CHAIRMAN PROV. FISCAL MEMBER |
| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in black on plain paper with a decorative guilloche border running along all four edges, incorporating corner vignettes with scroll and foliate motifs. The large numeral 10 interlocked with the bold legend TEN PESOS occupies the centre field, with PHILIPPINES in block letterpress below. The issuing authority and place of issue are inscribed in typeset text across the upper portion. |
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The Bohol Emergency Currency Board was one of dozens of provincial and municipal currency authorities established across the Philippine archipelago following the Japanese occupation of Manila in early 1942. With the Commonwealth government in exile and Japanese military scrip being forced into circulation, local boards issued their own paper to keep commerce functioning — operating largely on public trust and whatever paper stock was available.
The April 1945 print date is telling. By then, MacArthur's forces had already returned to Luzon; Bohol was still under Japanese occupation, meaning this note was printed and circulated under active wartime conditions, not in some administrative rear area.