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2 Pesos Purple
| Issuer | Negros Occidental Provincial Currency Committee |
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| Year | 1942 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Portrait vignette of President Manuel L. Quezon at left centre within an ornate guilloche border, with the denomination numeral '2' at each lower corner. A large circular red official seal of the Commonwealth of the Philippines is applied at right. Three facsimile signatures appear across the lower portion, attributed to the Provincial Fiscal (Member), Provincial Treasurer (Chairman), and Acting Provincial Auditor (Member). The entire note is printed in purple on white paper with a light latent underprint pattern. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in purple and centres on a large V-shaped underprint formed by two diagonal lines meeting at the lower centre, with a circular medallion at the intersection enclosing an ornate numeral '2' over the word 'PESOS'. The denomination numeral '2' appears in each corner, with the text 'TWO PESOS' in bold at lower centre and 'Commonwealth of the Philippines' in script across the upper field. A uniform vertical-line guilloche fills the background. |
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Negros Occidental was one of several Philippine provinces that organized its own emergency currency after Japanese forces severed contact with Manila in late 1941 and early 1942. The Provincial Currency Committee issues were not guerrilla scrip in the informal sense — they were authorized by the provincial government, backed by local assets, and accepted as legal tender within the island's economy throughout the occupation period.
The Nalco Press imprint places production firmly on Negros itself, under conditions of active wartime scarcity. Paper supply was irregular, and the print runs were necessarily small. The S647B designation distinguishes this from related varieties in the series by color.