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5 Pesos
| Issuer | Municipality of Zamboanga (Province of Zamboanga) |
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| Year | 1942 |
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| Value | 5 Pesos |
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| Obverse description | Emergency guerrilla currency executed in black letterpress on plain paper in a cheque-style format. The denomination ₱5.00 appears at upper right and lower left, with a series letter and serial number at upper center; the body text directs the Bank of the Philippine Islands, Zamboanga Branch, to pay the bearer the sum of five pesos. Countersignature lines for the City Auditor and City Treasurer are printed at the foot of the note, with a void clause stipulating non-acceptance if not deposited within 90 days. |
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| Obverse lettering | ₱5.00 TO THE BANK OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS ZAMBOANGA BRANCH Zamboanga, P.I., 1942 Pay to BEARER the sum of FIVE (₱5.00) PESOS. Countersigned: CITY AUDITOR CITY TREASURER (Void if not deposited within 90 days) |
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Philippine municipal emergency currency proliferated after the Japanese invasion of December 1941 cut off the supply of Commonwealth-issued notes and coins. Zamboanga City — then capital of Zamboanga Province on the Mindanao peninsula — was among dozens of local governments authorized to print their own scrip to keep commerce functioning. The authority to do so came from emergency powers granted by the Philippine Commonwealth government before its retreat to Corregidor.
Zamboanga fell to Japanese forces in early May 1942. Notes issued that year may predate the occupation, postdate it, or straddle it — the municipal printing timeline is poorly documented, which makes precise dating of individual pieces genuinely difficult.