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2 Pesos
| Issuer | Free Samar Currency Board |
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| Year | 1944 |
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| Currency | Peso (1941-1945) |
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| Obverse lettering | 2.00 PESOS TREASURY EMERGENCY CURRENCY CERTIFICATE TWO PESOS ISSUED BY THE FREE SAMAR CURRENCY BOARD TWO PESOS |
| Reverse description | Letterpress-printed in black on buff paper with an ornate border incorporating stylised scrollwork and decorative corner devices. Central text panel states the promise to pay in full scriptive typography; a red control stamp appears at right, with 'Series of 1944' noted twice in the side margins and three signature lines below attributed to Prov. Fiscal Member, Prov. Auditor Chairman, and Prov. Treasurer Member. |
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The Free Samar Currency Board was one of several guerrilla monetary authorities operating in the Philippine islands during the Japanese occupation. These provincial emergency issuers emerged because the Japanese Military Administration's peso rendered established currency politically unacceptable to resistance-aligned communities — accepting it was, in practical terms, collaboration.
Samar's notes circulated within a narrow geographic and social network: Filipino guerrilla units, sympathetic civilians, and USAFFE-affiliated personnel. The boards had no formal banking infrastructure, and denominations were often produced in extremely limited quantities on whatever paper stock was available locally.
Surviving examples from Samar are considerably scarcer than those from larger resistance-currency programs like Mindanao or Leyte.