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20 Centavos
| Issuer | Municipality of Pambujan Sur (Province of Northern Samar) |
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| Year | 1943 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Typeset emergency guerrilla issue printed in black on plain paper. A large numeral "20" underprint occupies the centre, overlaid by the note's text. Ornamental corner scrollwork frames the note at all four corners. Manuscript signatures of the Finance Officer Commanding and the Adjutant appear at lower right. |
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| Reverse description | Plain paper reverse bearing two circular violet handstamps of the Headquarters Volunteer Service Corps, one applied inverted. A manuscript signature in ink crosses the central handstamp. No printed design is present. |
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Philippine municipal emergency notes issued during the Japanese occupation are among the most historically concentrated objects in world notaphily — small-town governments printing their own scrip simply to keep local commerce functioning after the peso system collapsed under military administration. Pambujan Sur, a small municipality in Northern Samar, was one of dozens that did exactly this in 1943.
Northern Samar was active guerrilla territory throughout the occupation, and the line between civilian municipal authority and resistance-aligned administration was often deliberately blurred. Whether this note circulated freely or was used within a constrained local network is difficult to establish — most Philippine municipal scrip of this period was redeemed, destroyed, or simply dissolved in the humidity of the Visayas before documentation could occur.