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5 Centavos
| Issuer | Calape Emergency Currency Board |
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| Year | 1943 |
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| Value | 5 Centavos (0.05) |
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| Obverse description | Uniface emergency note printed in black letterpress on plain paper, with the denomination numeral '5¢' repeated in the upper corners. The text body carries the redemption pledge in capital letters, with two red serial numbers printed horizontally across the centre field. Three manuscript signatures appear along the lower portion, with handwritten designations for Mayor, Chairman, and Auditor below each. |
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| Reverse description | Plain reverse with no printed text or vignette, divided into five rectangular panels by ruled black borders. Faint red serial number impressions bleeding through from the obverse are visible at the left and right margins. |
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Calape was one of dozens of municipalities across the Philippine provinces that issued their own emergency scrip following the Japanese occupation and the collapse of prewar Commonwealth currency infrastructure. The Calape Emergency Currency Board operated under the broader guerrilla economy that sustained civilian life in Bohol, where local authorities printed notes to keep commerce functioning without access to Manila-based banking.
Provincial emergency issues from Bohol are among the more fragile survivors of the Pacific War period — printed on whatever paper was locally available, often without the materials or equipment to produce durable notes. The 1943 date places this squarely in the occupation's middle years, before American forces returned to the central Visayas in 1945.