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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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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse lettering | HEADQUARTERS VOLUNTEER SERVICE CORPS, AUSA IN THE FIELD PAMBUJAN SUR, SAMAR, PHILIPPINES NOV. 15, 1942 SERIAL NO. CIRCULATING NOTES HEADQUARTERS VOLUNTEER SERVICE CORPS, AUSA will pay the bearer on demand FIVE CENTAVOS S/1942 Finance Officer Commanding Officer Adjutant |
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| Protection type | Handstamp |
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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.