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20 Pesos
| Issuer | Negros Emergency Currency Board |
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| Year | 1943 |
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| Value | 20 Pesos |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in brown on plain paper with a simple decorative border matching the obverse. Denomination numerals 20 appear in the upper left and upper right corners, with the word PESOS below each. The large central inscription reads Twenty Philippines Pesos in bold letterpress across two lines, flanked by a circular seal vignette at the left. Roman numeral XX appears at the lower left and Xx at the lower right. |
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| Signature(s) | Alfredo Montelibano (Governor/Chairman), Acting Treasurer (Member), and Provincial Auditor (Member) |
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The Negros Emergency Currency Board was one of several provincial bodies authorized to issue guerrilla currency after the Japanese occupation severed the islands from centralized banking. Negros Occidental in particular maintained an unusually organized resistance administration, and its emergency notes were treated as legitimate tender within liberated or contested zones — not simply as scrip. Montelibano, who served as provincial governor, signed as chairman, lending the issues a degree of civil authority that many other guerrilla series lacked.
The S664 series is among the more frequently encountered Negros issues, though pieces showing all three countersignatures clearly intact are harder to find than raw survival numbers suggest.