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2 Pesos Dark Blue
| Issuer | Negros Occidental Provincial Currency Committee |
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| Year | 1942 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Portrait vignette of President Manuel L. Quezon at left, with large numeral '2' counters at each lateral margin set against a dense diagonal-text underprint repeating 'Commonwealth of the Philippines' and 'Negros Occidental' across the entire field. An orange circular seal of the City of Bacolod is applied at centre-right, dated January 1942. Three facsimile signature lines appear at the foot, identified respectively as Provincial Fiscal (Member), Provincial Treasurer (Chairman), and Acting Provincial Auditor (Member), with the serial number printed in orange at upper right and lower left. |
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| Obverse lettering | TWO PESOS EMERGENCY CIRCULATING NOTE OF 1942 ISSUED BY AUTHORITY OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES ON JANUARY 20, 1942 THE COMMONWEALTH OF THE PHILIPPINES WILL PAY THE BEARER ON DEMAND TWO PESOS IN LAWFUL CURRENCY OF THE PHILIPPINES NEGROS OCCIDENTAL PROVINCIAL CURRENCY COMMITTEE |
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Negros Occidental was one of several Philippine provinces that issued its own emergency currency after Japanese forces disrupted the central banking system following the December 1941 invasion. The Provincial Currency Committee operated under extraordinary wartime authority, with local printing shops pressed into service to keep commerce moving in areas not yet under Japanese occupation or administration.
The Nalco Press imprint places production firmly within the province itself — a civilian operation working under genuine scarcity of materials and equipment. The dark blue color variant distinguishes this from other emissions in the S647 series.