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5 Centavos
| Issuer | Headquarters Volunteer Service Corps, USAFFE, Pambujan Sur, Samar |
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| Year | 1942 |
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| Currency | Peso (1941-1945) |
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| Obverse description | Plain paper emergency issue with black typewritten text arranged in horizontal lines across the face, bordered on all sides by a repeated '5¢' underprint. A large violet handstamp of the denomination '5¢' is applied to the centre, with a second circular violet seal partially visible at lower right. Three manuscript signatures appear at the bottom under the titles Finance Officer, Commanding Officer, and Adjutant. |
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| Reverse description | Plain unprinted paper reverse bearing a large circular violet official handstamp of the Headquarters Volunteer Service Corps, AUSA, applied centrally and showing through from the obverse application. The remainder of the surface is blank, typical of typewritten guerrilla emergency currency of the Philippine USAFFE period. |
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Pambujan Sur is a small municipality on the northern coast of Samar, and in 1942 it was producing its own money. Following the fall of Bataan and Corregidor, civilian and guerrilla administrations across the Philippine provinces began issuing emergency currency independently, often with whatever printing equipment survived the Japanese advance. The Volunteer Service Corps connection places this squarely in the USAFFE guerrilla network that continued organized resistance under MacArthur's nominal command.
The handstamp authentication was the only practical anti-counterfeiting measure available under occupation conditions. Local paper, local ink, local press — the note's entire existence is a logistical improvisation.