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20 Centavos
| Issuer | Leyte Emergency Currency Board, Tacloban |
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| Year | 1942 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Reverse lettering | TWENTY CENTAVOS LEYTE EMERGENCY CURRENCY BOARD TACLOBAN PHILIPPINES Alberto de la Cruz Prov. Auditor Chairman I. D. Jimenez Prov. Treasurer Member Quintin Paredes, Jr. Prov. Fiscal Member 20 |
| Signature(s) | Alberto de la Cruz (Chairman), I. D. Jimenez (Member) and Quintin Paredes, Jr. (Member) |
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The Leyte Emergency Currency Board was one of several provincial bodies that sprang up across the Philippine archipelago in the weeks following the Japanese invasion, authorized under a general directive from the Commonwealth government to prevent economic paralysis at the local level. Tacloban, as the provincial capital of Leyte, became the natural seat for this board, and production was necessarily improvised — local paper, local printing resources, whatever was available.
Quintin Paredes, Jr., one of the three signatories here, was the son of Quintin Paredes Sr., a prominent Filipino politician and later a collaborationist figure under the Japanese occupation. The junior Paredes signing emergency resistance currency in 1942 is a small biographical footnote worth noting.