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5 Centavos
| Issuer | Philippine National Bank - Cebu Currency Committee |
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| Year | 1941 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | The note is framed by a decorative guilloche border with large numeral '5' corner vignettes and vertical 'CENTAVOS' lettering along both side margins. The Philippine National Bank seal is positioned at upper centre, flanked by the emergency note text and denomination. A serial number in red and three manuscript signatures appear at lower centre, with the signatories identified as Fiscal of the Province of Cebu, Acting Manager of PNB Cebu, and Auditor of the Province of Cebu. |
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| Obverse lettering | EMERGENCY CIRCULATING NOTE OF 1941 THE PHILIPPINE NATIONAL BANK WILL PAY THE BEARER ON DEMAND FIVE CENTAVOS IN LAWFUL CURRENCY OF THE PHILIPPINES CEBU CURRENCY COMMITTEE CENTAVOS |
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The Philippine National Bank's Cebu Currency Committee issued this note as an emergency measure following the Japanese invasion, when normal banking channels collapsed and the archipelago fragmented into isolated currency zones. Cebu, as the major commercial center of the Visayas, needed a locally workable medium of exchange — hence a series of low-denomination fractional notes printed under improvised conditions with whatever materials were at hand.
Locally produced under wartime duress, these notes show considerable variation in paper stock and impression quality across surviving examples — not a collector grading concern but a direct consequence of the circumstances of manufacture.