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20 Centavos
| Issuer | Municipal Government of Hilongos |
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| Year | 1941-1945 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Crude letterpress-printed note in black ink on buff paper, with the denomination numeral 20 appearing in each corner. A central oval guilloche-style underprint frames the large bold word CENTAVOS, while the issuer text and promise-to-pay legend arc around the oval in two lines. The word TWENTY runs across the top of the note in bold capitals. |
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| Obverse lettering | TWENTY THE MUNICIPAL GOV'T OF HILONGOS WILL PAY THE BEARER ON DEMAND TWENTY CENTAVOS |
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Hilongos is a municipality on the western coast of Leyte, and like dozens of Filipino local governments during the Japanese occupation, it issued its own emergency currency when the occupation-era military pesos failed to inspire public confidence. These municipal guerrilla notes — sometimes called "emergency circulating notes" — were produced under extraordinarily improvised conditions, often on whatever paper stock was locally available.
Provenance and print runs for Hilongos issues are essentially unrecorded. Survival is a function of luck, not design.