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5 Pesos
| Issuer | Pambujan Sur, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1943 |
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| Reference(s) | P# |
| Obverse description | Black letterpress on plain paper with a central guilloche underprint bearing the large numeral '5' flanked by 'FIVE PESOS' in bold type. Issuing authority and place name inscribed across the top, with the promise-to-pay text and three signature lines at the foot. Border formed by a repeated denomination underprint strip reading 'P5.00'. |
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| Reverse description | Violet handstamp applied to the reverse, serving as a validation or countersignature mark. |
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Pambujan Sur is a small municipality in Northern Samar, and like dozens of Philippine local governments during the Japanese occupation, it issued its own emergency guerrilla currency when Japanese military scrip became the only legal tender under occupation law. These municipal notes from 1943 exist in a grey zone — technically unauthorized by any central authority, they functioned on local trust alone.
Survival rates for Samar provincial issues are low. The combination of combat activity, humid climate, and wartime destruction eliminated most of the print runs before liberation.