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2 Pesos
| Issuer | Municipal Government of Macrohon, Leyte |
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| Year | 1941-1945 |
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| Value | 2 Pesos |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress-printed note with a decorative border enclosing the municipal seal at centre, flanked by ornamental corner devices. The promise-to-pay legend is arranged in two horizontal registers above and beside the seal, with a handwritten signature of the Municipal Treasurer below and a circular violet control stamp at left. |
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| Reverse lettering | MACROHON EMERGENCY NOTE TWO 2 PESOS No. COUNTERSIGNED AUDITOR MAYOR |
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Macrohon is a small coastal municipality on the southern tip of Leyte, and its wartime scrip belongs to the broader phenomenon of Filipino local emergency currency issued after the Japanese occupation disrupted the prewar Commonwealth monetary system. Hundreds of Philippine municipalities, provinces, and guerrilla commands printed their own notes between 1941 and 1945, varying wildly in quality — some lithographed, others typewritten or rubber-stamped on whatever paper was available.
Municipal issues from small Leyte towns are among the more elusive in this category, with survival rates heavily dependent on whether the issuing community was overrun before notes could be redeemed or destroyed.