2 Pesos

Negros Occidental was one of several Philippine provinces that issued its own emergency currency after the Japanese invasion disrupted the normal banking system in late 1941. These guerrilla or "emergency" notes were authorized by local governments and military commanders to keep commerce functioning during occupation — a patchwork solution across an archipelago where Japanese military scrip and pre-war Commonwealth notes were both circulating simultaneously.

The Negros series is among the better-documented provincial issues, but survivorship varies sharply by denomination. Notes that actually circulated in the interior provinces took real wear fast; those printed in excess and held back tend to show up in far better shape than their wartime origins suggest.