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1000 Pesos Silver Certificate Issue
| Issuer | General Treasury of the Republic |
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| Year | 1944-1947 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse lettering | REPUBLICA DE CUBA MIL PESOS 1000 PESOS TOMÁS ESTRADA PALMA ESTE CERTIFICADO, EMITIDO DE CONFORMIDAD CON LO DISPUESTO EN LA LEY NÚMERO 5 DE 2 DE MAYO DE 1942, SERÁ ACEPTADO SIN LIMITACIÓN, EN PAGO DE IMPUESTOS DEL ESTADO LA PROVINCIA Y EL MUNICIPIO CERTIFICADO DE PLATA (Translation: Republic of Cuba One thousand Pesos 1000 Pesos Tomás Estrada Palma This certificate, issued accordingly with stated on the law number 5, from May 2nd., 1942, will be accepted without limits, as payment of the taxes from the State, the Province and the Municipal. Silver Certificate) |
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| Variants | P#76a - 1944 P#76b - 1945 |
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The Philippine silver certificate series issued under the postwar Commonwealth and early Republic governments filled a critical gap: the Japanese occupation had flooded the islands with "Mickey Mouse money," and restoring confidence in paper currency required something explicitly backed by metal. These notes carried a legal obligation redeemable in silver pesos, a deliberate policy choice to distinguish them from the worthless wartime issues they were replacing.
ABNC printed this series before Philippine independence in July 1946, meaning some examples technically predate the Republic whose treasury name they bear — a byproduct of issuing authority language being drafted ahead of the political transition itself.