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10 Pesos
| Issuer | Negros Emergency Currency Board |
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| Year | 1945 |
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| Currency | Philippine Peso (1898-date) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is a letterpress-printed emergency currency certificate on plain paper, framed by a decorative border of repeated ornamental units. The upper portion carries the heading 'Treasury Emergency Currency Certificate' above a block of authorizing text issued by authority of the President of the Philippines, with 'SERIES OF 1945' at left. The denomination 'TEN PESOS' is set in large bold type at center, beneath which the issuing authority 'Negros Emergency Currency Board' appears in script lettering, accompanied by a circular seal vignette at right and three facsimile signatures with their respective titles — Acting Treasurer/Member, Governor/Chairman, and Acting Auditor/Member — above a printed serial number. |
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| Obverse lettering | TREASURY EMERGENCY CURRENCY CERTIFICATE Issued by authority of the President of the Philippines This certifies that the Commonwealth of the Philippines will redeem this certificate at face value upon termination of emergency SERIES OF 1945 TEN PESOS Payable to the bearer on demand in silver pesos or in legal tender currency at the Negros Emergency Currency Board Actg. Treasurer MEMBER Governor CHAIRMAN Actg. Auditor MEMBER 10 |
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The Negros Emergency Currency Board was one of several provincial guerrilla currency authorities that issued notes during the Japanese occupation of the Philippines. Negros Occidental maintained unusually organized resistance, and its emergency issues were backed by local commodities — principally sugar — rather than any central reserve, an arrangement that gave the notes real transactional credibility among the island's population during 1942–1945.
The S683 belongs to the final phase of these issues, dated 1945, by which point American forces had returned and the notes were approaching the end of their operational life. Philippine Commonwealth authorities later redeemed many guerrilla issues, though the terms and completeness of redemption varied considerably by series.