5 Pesos

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.