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5 Centavos
| Issuer | Municipal Government of Macrohon, Leyte |
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| Year | 1941-1945 |
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| Currency | Peso (1941-1945) |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress-printed note with a simple decorative border framing the entire face. The municipal seal vignette appears at centre, flanked by the denomination numeral '5' within a circular purple overprint at lower left. A manuscript signature of the Municipal Treasurer runs across the lower centre, with a small ornamental rosette device at lower right. |
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| Obverse lettering | THE MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENT MACROHON LEYTE WILL PAY THE BEARER ON DEMAND FIVE CENTAVOS |
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Macrohon is a small coastal municipality on the southern tip of Leyte, and its wartime emergency scrip belongs to a broader pattern of hyperlocal currency that proliferated across the Philippine archipelago during the Japanese occupation. When the Japanese Military Administration imposed its own currency — the so-called "Mickey Mouse money" — many provincial and municipal governments quietly issued their own guerrilla or emergency notes to sustain local commerce and signal loyalty to the Commonwealth government in exile.
Municipal scrip from small Leyte towns survives in genuinely low numbers. Macrohon's issues were almost certainly hand-signed by local officials and printed or mimeographed in extremely limited quantities, with most destroyed, lost, or deliberately discarded after liberation when U.S. forces returned to Leyte in October 1944.