| Description de l’avers |
Printed in brown on plain paper, the obverse carries the title Treasury Emergency Currency Certificate at top, with the issuing authority text stating By Authority of the President of the Commonwealth of the Philippines, series designation at upper right, and serial number at right. A red circular seal of the Commonwealth of the Philippines is affixed at left, with three facsimile signatures of the Mindanao Emergency Currency Board members below the central redemption text. The denomination TEN PESOS appears in large numerals at the four corners and in bold lettering across the top and bottom. |
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| Description du revers |
Printed in brown on plain paper, the reverse is enclosed within a decorative scalloped border with the denomination numeral 10 repeated in each corner. The issuing authority ISSUED BY THE MINDANAO EMERGENCY CURRENCY BOARD and PHILIPPINES appear at the top, followed by a central bilingual redemption text in English and Visayan (Cebuano), and a warning against counterfeiting rendered in both languages. TEN PESOS is repeated at the top and bottom margins. |
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The Mindanao Emergency Currency Board was one of several Philippine provincial bodies that issued guerrilla currency during the Japanese occupation. These notes were produced under extraordinarily difficult conditions — paper stocks were improvised, printing equipment was whatever could be hidden or salvaged, and the entire operation carried real danger for those involved. Japanese forces actively sought to suppress guerrilla finance, and possession of these notes could mean death.
The S488 series is among the better-documented Mindanao issues, though attribution within the broader S480s range remains contested in specialist literature due to inconsistent overprint and serial numbering practices across different issuing localities.