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10 Pesos
| Issuer | Philippine National Bank, Iloilo City |
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| Year | 1944 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in reddish-brown and is the mirror image of the obverse, intended as a security measure through letterpress back-printing. The large denomination numeral '10' and the text 'PESOS' dominate the centre, with 'Philippine National Bank' across the upper portion and 'Iloilo City Philippines May 1 1944' visible at centre left. The three facsimile signatures of the Iloilo Currency Committee members appear at lower centre, and the legend 'Emergency Circulating Note of 1944' is printed along the bottom margin. |
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| Signature(s) | Bellisario (Actg. Prov. Auditor, Member) and Duran (Actg. Mgr. P.N.B. Iloilo, Chairman) and Demetria G. Simser (Actg. Prov. Fiscal, Member) |
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The Philippine National Bank's Iloilo branch issued this emergency note under Japanese occupation, when the guerrilla-controlled provinces of the Visayas were cut off from Manila and forced to improvise their own currency infrastructure. Provincial fiscal, auditor, and branch manager signing together reflects the makeshift committee authority that replaced normal banking hierarchy in occupied territory — three signatures because no single office retained full institutional legitimacy.
Simser is a notably non-Filipino surname for an acting provincial fiscal in 1944 Iloilo, suggesting the wartime administrative scramble threw up some unusual appointments.