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5 Pesos Solid 5, President of the Philippines
| Issuer | Negros Occidental Currency Committee |
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| Year | 1941 |
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| Currency | Peso (1941-1945) |
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| Reverse description | Plain salmon-toned paper with a fine guilloche border running the full perimeter of the note. Large roman numeral 'V' appears in the upper left and lower right corners, with the numeral '5' in the lower left and upper right. The central area carries bold serif text 'FIVE PESOS' at top, followed by 'PHILIPPINE NATIONAL BANK' and 'EMERGENCY CIRCULATING NOTE', with an italic authority inscription at the foot. |
| Reverse lettering | FIVE PESOS PHILIPPINE NATIONAL BANK EMERGENCY CIRCULATING NOTE Issued under the authority of the President of the Philippines of December 29 and 30, 1941. |
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The Negros Occidental Currency Committee was one of several provincial emergency bodies that authorized local scrip after the Japanese invasion cut off the Philippine Commonwealth's normal currency supply. This note was produced under wartime duress — Filma Press was a local commercial printer, not a security printer, which is exactly what you'd expect from an island improvising its monetary infrastructure under occupation.
The "Solid 5" designation in the series title is a local colloquialism, not an official denomination qualifier. These Negros emergency issues circulated alongside other guerrilla currency and Japanese military pesos in a deeply fragmented monetary environment, which means heavily worn survivors are far more historically honest than clean ones.