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2 Pesos
| Issuer | Province of Negros Oriental |
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| Year | 1942 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Reverse description | Printed entirely in terracotta orange-red, the reverse is framed by a continuous ornamental border of repeated foliate and geometric guilloche motifs running along all four edges, with numeral '2' placed at each corner and 'PESOS' reading vertically along both side margins. The denomination 'Two Pesos' is set in large serif letterpress type at the centre of an otherwise plain field. |
| Reverse lettering | TWO PESOS 2 PESOS |
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Negros Oriental was one of several Philippine provinces that issued its own emergency currency after the Japanese invasion cut off the supply of Commonwealth government notes. These provincial guerrilla issues were authorized locally and produced under occupation conditions, often on whatever paper and printing equipment remained available.
The S655 series is among the more obscure of the Negros emergency issues — the island itself was split between Negros Oriental and Negros Occidental, each producing distinct series with no coordination between them. Notes from both provinces circulated alongside each other, Japanese military pesos, and pre-war Commonwealth currency simultaneously.
Foxing and brittleness are endemic to Philippine emergency paper from this period due to wartime paper quality.