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5 Centavos
| Issuer | Negros Occidental Provincial Currency Board |
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| Year | 1942 |
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| Value | 5 Centavos (0.05) |
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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. 26, 1942 |
| Reverse description | Printed entirely in blue ink, the reverse is composed of a dense guilloche underprint of fine horizontal ruling enclosed within a double-rule rectangular frame with a diamond-pattern outer border. The denomination numerals '5' appear in the upper corners and large '5¢' devices occupy the lower corners, with 'CENTAVOS' running vertically along each side margin. |
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Negros Occidental was one of several Philippine provinces that issued emergency guerrilla currency after Japanese forces occupied the islands following the fall of Corregidor in May 1942. The Provincial Currency Board notes were authorized under emergency powers and produced locally with whatever materials and equipment were available — Nalco Press was a commercial operation pressed into wartime service, not a security printer.
The series circulated alongside similar issues from other provinces, each effectively operating its own monetary system. American military authorities later redeemed many guerrilla notes after liberation, but redemption records for the Negros Occidental series are incomplete.