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2 Pesos
| Issuer | Leyte Provincial Board / Leyte Emergency Currency Board |
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| Year | 1943 |
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| Currency | Philippine Emergency Currency (1941-1945) |
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| Obverse lettering | THE COMMONWEALTH OF THE PHILIPPINES WILL PAY THE BEARER TWO PESOS UPON TERMINATION OF EMERGENCY SERIES OF 1941 |
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| Reverse lettering | TWO PESOS ISSUED BY THE LEYTE PROVINCIAL BOARD BY AUTHORITY OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES ENRIQUE POTENTE PROV. AUDITOR PROCESO KADAVERO PROV. TREASURER FILEMON SAAVEDRA PROV. FISCAL LEYTE EMERGENCY CURRENCY BOARD |
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Leyte issued its own emergency currency in 1943 under Japanese occupation, when the Philippine Commonwealth government had collapsed and provincial boards were left to improvise local monetary systems. The Emergency Currency Board arrangement — drawing on provincial fiscal officers rather than central banking authority — was a direct consequence of that administrative vacuum.
The three signatories reflect the legal hedging typical of Philippine guerrilla-adjacent notes: spreading authorization across the Auditor, Treasurer, and Fiscal made the currency harder to delegitimize on a single procedural ground. Whether this actually increased public confidence in Leyte is another question.