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5 Pesos
| Issuer | Municipality of Guiuan, Samar |
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| Year | 1943 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | A circular seal vignette appears at the left, with a large bold letter V occupying the right portion of the note, characteristic of wartime Philippine guerrilla emergency currency. The central text panel carries the denomination "FIVE PESOS" in large letterpress type, flanked by repeated numeral border patterns along all edges. Two manuscript signatures appear at the lower portion of the note, with the date July 15, 1943 inscribed in handwriting. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is plain, bearing a large handwritten or rubber-stamped cursive signature or paraph centrally placed, with ink stamp impressions visible at the left and right. The remainder of the surface is unprinted aged paper. |
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Guiuan sits at the southeastern tip of Samar, and in 1943 it was under Japanese occupation. This note is one of the guerrilla or municipal emergency issues produced across the Philippine provinces during that period, when the Japanese-issued Mickey Mouse peso had collapsed public trust and local authorities improvised their own scrip to keep markets functioning.
Samar's wartime issues are among the less-documented of the Philippine guerrilla currencies — survival rates vary sharply by municipality, and smaller coastal towns like Guiuan produced limited quantities that rarely made it into major collections.