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5 Centavos
| Issuer | Municipal Government of Basey |
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| Year | 1943 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Plain emergency scrip printed by typewriter or rubber stamp on aged paper, with a simple border ornament running along all four edges. The central text block, in a typewritten face, reads the issuer name and promise-to-pay legend in five lines. The lower portion carries the serial number and series year in the same typewritten style, with the denomination numeral '5' appearing at the lower right corner. |
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| Reverse description | Entirely plain reverse save for a large, bold numeral '5' printed in the centre, occupying most of the note's face, serving as the sole denomination indicator. Two handwritten signatures appear below and to the right of the numeral, inscribed in ink directly on the paper stock. |
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Basey is a municipality in Samar, in the Eastern Visayas region of the Philippines. Notes like this one were issued under Japanese occupation, when the destruction of normal banking infrastructure and the imposition of Japanese military scrip forced local governments, municipalities, and guerrilla units across the archipelago to print their own emergency currency to keep local commerce functioning. Hundreds of such issues appeared between 1942 and 1945, varying wildly in quality and authorized backing.
Municipal issues from Samar are among the harder provincial emergencies to document — surviving examples are few, and administrative records from the occupation period were largely lost or deliberately destroyed.