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5 Pesos
| Issuer | Negros Occidental Provincial Currency Committee |
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| Year | 1942 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Reverse description | Printed in orange-yellow on a cream ground, the reverse is dominated by a large outlined triangle at centre enclosing the word FIVE in bold block letters, with COMMONWEALTH OF THE PHILIPPINES across the mid-field and FIVE PESOS in large type below. Roman numeral V appears in the upper corners and the word PESOS vertically on each side, while the numeral 5 occupies the lower lateral corners within the geometric guilloche border. A faint ghosted impression of the obverse text shows through as a security underprint, and a pink stamp is visible at left. |
| Reverse lettering | FIVE COMMONWEALTH OF THE PHILIPPINES FIVE PESOS V PESOS 5 |
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Negros Occidental was one of several Philippine provinces that organized its own emergency currency after the Japanese occupation severed normal banking channels in early 1942. The Provincial Currency Committee had no access to security printing facilities — the Nalco Press was a local commercial operation, producing notes on whatever paper stock was available. The results were deliberately simple, partly from necessity and partly to discourage forgery through scarcity of materials rather than technical complexity.
These guerrilla-era provincial issues circulated alongside Japanese military pesos, though the local population generally trusted them more. Many were deliberately destroyed or hidden as the Japanese tightened administrative control over the islands.