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5 Centavos
| Issuer | Municipal Government of Hindang |
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| Year | 1941-1945 |
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| Value | 5 Centavos (0.05) |
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| Obverse lettering | THE MUNICIPAL GOV'T OF HINDANG MA-BA HI-HIN-IN WILL PAY THE BEARER ON DEMAND FIVE CENTAVOS |
| Reverse description | Plain buff paper ground bearing a central vignette of a standing male figure holding a sword and banner, flanked by two rainbow-arc ornaments. Serial number printed vertically in bold black type at the left and right margins. Two manuscript signatures appear above and below the central vignette, accompanied by printed designation lines identifying the signatories as M.T. Chairman and M.T. Auditor. |
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| Comments |
Hindang is a small municipality in Leyte, and like dozens of other local governments across the Philippine islands during the Japanese occupation, it issued its own emergency currency when centrally produced notes became unavailable or untrustworthy. These municipal guerrilla or emergency notes were sanctioned — loosely — by the Commonwealth government in exile and produced with whatever printing resources were locally accessible, which typically meant crude typography, inconsistent paper stock, and hand-signed authorizations.
The 5 centavos denomination suggests this was meant for genuine small-transaction use, not just symbolic assertion of civil authority. Low-denomination Leyte municipal notes were heavily circulated and are disproportionately scarce today because the paper simply did not survive.