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5 Pesos
| Issuer | Mindanao Emergency Currency Board |
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| Year | 1943 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse lettering | FIVE PESOS Treasury Emergency Currency Certificate BY AUTHORITY OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF THE PHILIPPINES SERIES 1943 This certifies that the Commonwealth Government of the Philippines will redeem this Certificate at face value upon termination of Emergency FIVE PESOS MINDANAO EMERGENCY CURRENCY BOARD F. D. PACANA MEMBER FLORENTINO SAGUN CHAIRMAN MEMBER |
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| Reverse lettering | ISSUED BY THE MINDANAO EMERGENCY CURRENCY BOARD PHILIPPINES FIVE PESOS This note is redeemable at face value after the emergency and will not be devalued or discriminated against Kining sapi-a kaliisan sumala sa iyang bill tapus ang kagubut ug dili kakubaan ni kaayran Counterfeiting of this note will be severely punished Mabug-at nga silot ipahamtang sa maga kawat pag sundog ning sapia |
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The Mindanao Emergency Currency Board was one of several provincial emergency currency authorities that operated in the southern Philippines during the Japanese occupation. Mindanao's relative geographic isolation and the strength of guerrilla resistance there allowed local civil administrations to function semi-independently, and emergency currency issues were both a practical necessity and a quiet assertion of continued loyalty to the Commonwealth government-in-exile.
F. D. Pacana served as the board's chairman; Florentino Sagun as treasurer. The third signature line, designated simply "Member," varies by printing batch — a detail that complicates authentication and has attracted forgers over the decades.