Catalog
5 Pesos
| Issuer | Philippine National Bank, Negros Occidental Currency Committee (Bacolod Branch) |
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| Year | 1941 |
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| Value | 5 Pesos |
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| Obverse lettering | PHILIPPINE NATIONAL BANK EMERGENCY CIRCULATING NOTE OF 1941 THE PHILIPPINE NATIONAL BANK WILL PAY THE BEARER ON DEMAND V FIVE PESOS SERIES OF 1941 IN LAWFUL CURRENCY OF THE PHILIPPINES ISSUED BY AUTHORITY OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF THE PHILIPPINES NEGROS OCCIDENTAL CURRENCY COMMITTEE City of Bacolod Prov. Fiscal Member Actg. Mgr. P.N.B. Bacolod Branch Chairman Actg. Prov. Auditor Member |
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| Reverse lettering | V FIVE PESOS PHILIPPINE NATIONAL BANK EMERGENCY CIRCULATING NOTE Issued by authority of the President of the Commonwealth of the Philippines 5 |
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The Negros Occidental Currency Committee notes were emergency wartime issues produced after Japanese forces disrupted access to regular Philippine currency. The Bacolod Branch of the Philippine National Bank acted as one of several provincial issuing authorities empowered under emergency arrangements to keep commerce functioning during the Japanese occupation period — a remarkably decentralized response to a collapsing monetary supply chain.
S616 is among the more frequently encountered of the Negros emergency series, though significant variation exists in signatures and serial number ranges. Some examples show evidence of local rubber-stamp validation, which was applied to authenticate notes that might otherwise be refused by suspicious merchants.