20 Centavos

Municipal emergency currency of this kind proliferated across the Philippine provinces after the Japanese occupation disrupted the existing monetary supply. Local governments were left to improvise, and Oras — a small coastal municipality on the eastern shore of Samar — was among dozens that issued their own scrip to keep commerce functioning. These notes had no backing institution behind them beyond the authority and solvency of the issuing municipality itself.

Samar saw some of the war's most brutal guerrilla activity, and municipal records from this period were largely destroyed. Surviving examples of Oras scrip are accordingly rare.