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20 Pesos
| Issuer | Free Negros Military Currency Committee |
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| Year | 1943 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Plain text layout with the denomination TWENTY PESOS printed in bold at centre, above a multi-line authority text and the designation 7th Military District and Free Negros Military Currency Committee. The lower portion bears three manuscript signatures with printed title lines identifying the Division Finance Officer, Chairman, and Member, with a serial number at upper right. |
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| Reverse description | A central vignette of a standing female allegorical figure with a hammer at an anvil, rendered in a letterpress style within a ornamental border with guilloche patterning at the corners and repeated numeral 20 watermark elements. The denomination legend and issuing authority inscription appear above and below the central vignette. |
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The Free Negros Military Currency Committee was one of several guerrilla-affiliated bodies that issued emergency scrip across the Philippine islands following the Japanese occupation of 1942. Negros Island maintained unusually organized resistance, and its currency issues were among the more administratively structured of the wartime guerrilla series — backed nominally by local government authority rather than purely by military command.
The Japanese military administration aggressively suppressed guerrilla scrip, making possession dangerous. Notes that survived did so largely by being hidden, which accounts for the folding patterns and concealment damage common to this series.