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5 Centavos

Issuer Maribojoc Municipal Emergency Currency Board
Year 1944
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Currency Peso (1941-1945)
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Obverse description Typeset emergency issue on coarse, uncoated paper, with the denomination FIVE (5) CENTAVOS centred within the body of the printed text. The serial number appears twice, at mid-left and mid-right margins. A small hand-stamped vignette occupies the right margin, and three signature lines at the base are captioned Member, Chairman, and Member respectively.
Obverse lettering The Maribojoc Municipal Government will redeem this Certificate of 1944 FIVE (5) CENTAVOS Issued by EMERGENCY CURRENCY BOARD Member Chairman Member 5 5
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Maribojoc is a small municipality on the southern coast of Bohol island in the Philippines. Notes like this one were produced under Japanese occupation when the guerrilla-aligned civil administration issued its own emergency scrip to keep local economies functioning — the occupying forces having disrupted or replaced prewar Philippine Commonwealth currency.

Municipal issues from Bohol are among the more fragmentary of the Philippine emergency series. Maribojoc's board operated with extremely limited resources, and low-denomination centavo notes were printed in small quantities for basic market transactions. Few survived the war intact.

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