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5 Pesos Shaded 5, President of the Commonwealth
| Issuer | Negros Occidental Currency Committee |
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| Year | 1941 |
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| Reference(s) | P#S614 |
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| Obverse lettering | PHILIPPINE NATIONAL BANK EMERGENCY CIRCULATING NOTE OF 1941 THE PHILIPPINE NATIONAL BANK WILL PAY THE BEARER ON DEMAND FIVE PESOS IN LAWFUL CURRENCY OF THE PHILIPPINES ISSUED BY AUTHORITY OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF THE PHILIPPINES NEGROS OCCIDENTAL CURRENCY COMMITTEE |
| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in black on plain paper within a simple guilloche border frame. The large shaded Roman numeral V appears in the upper corners, with the numeral 5 at lower left and lower right. The central field carries the denomination and issuing bank name in bold letterpress type, followed by the note's designation and the authorizing clause in smaller print, with no date present. |
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Negros Occidental was one of several Philippine provinces that printed its own emergency currency after Japanese forces disrupted normal banking in late 1941 and early 1942. The Currency Committee issues were authorized locally rather than by Manila, giving each province's notes a semi-official status that remained legally ambiguous throughout the occupation — accepted by necessity, not by formal monetary law.
The Filma Press attribution is notable: most provincial emergency issues were farmed out to whatever commercial printer was available and had stock. Paper quality and ink consistency vary considerably across surviving examples of this series, which complicates attribution when notes lack clear printer markings.
The "Shaded 5" designation distinguishes this from a parallel printing with a plain numeral — a small but catalogued die variation.