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5 Centavos
| Issuer | Negros Occidental Provincial Currency Committee |
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| Year | 1942 |
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| Currency | Philippine Peso (1903-date) |
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| Obverse lettering | FIVE CENTAVOS EMERGENCY CIRCULATING NOTE OF 1942 Issued by Authority of the President of the Philippines on January 20, 1942 The Commonwealth of the Philippines WILL PAY TO THE BEARER ON DEMAND FIVE CENTAVOS IN LAWFUL CURRENCY OF THE PHILIPPINES Negros Occidental Provincial Currency Committee: PROV. TREAS., CHAIRMAN ACTG. PROV. AUD. MEMBER PROV. FISCAL MEMBER For the Committee SERIES OF 1942 CITY OF BACOLOD JAN. 28, 1942 |
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| Reverse lettering | 5 5 CENTAVOS CENTAVOS FIVE COMMONWEALTH OF THE PHILIPPINES CENTAVOS 5¢ 5¢ EMERGENCY CIRCULATING NOTE OF 1942 |
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Negros Occidental was one of several Philippine provinces that organized its own emergency currency after the Japanese occupation disrupted the Commonwealth monetary system in late 1941 and early 1942. The Provincial Currency Committee issues were explicitly provisional — intended to keep local commerce functioning until normal banking resumed, which everyone assumed would happen within months.
The Negros Occidental series is among the better-documented guerrilla currency issues in the Pick catalogue, produced locally with whatever printing resources the provincial administration could secure. Small denominations like this one circulated hardest and survived least.