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50 Centavos
| Issuer | Negros Occidental Currency Committee |
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| Year | 1941 |
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| Currency | Peso (1941-1945) |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress-printed note in black ink on cream paper, with the issuing authority's name in large script lettering across the upper centre. The denomination "Fifty Centavos" appears in bold typeface at centre, flanked by numeral 50 corner pieces and a decorative border with guilloche-style elements. Three signature lines for the Provincial Fiscal Member, Acting Manager of the PNB Bacolod Branch (Chairman), and Acting Provincial Auditor Member appear at the bottom, with the serial number printed vertically in red at each side. |
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| Reverse description | Letterpress-printed in brown on cream paper, with the bank name in large script at the top. The Commonwealth of the Philippines arms appears at centre between the denomination text "FIFTY CENTAVOS", with "SECOND ISSUE" below. The place and date of issue, "Bacolod City" and "Dec. 30, 1941", flank the central arms, and a bold inscription "EMERGENCY CIRCULATING NOTE OF 1941" runs across the lower portion within a decorative guilloche border. |
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| Comments |
When Japanese forces occupied the Philippines following the December 1941 attacks, provincial and municipal governments throughout the archipelago scrambled to issue their own emergency currency after the Manila-based banking system collapsed. Negros Occidental was among the earliest and most organized of these local issuers, establishing its Currency Committee within weeks of the invasion to keep commerce functional on the island.
Filma Press was a local commercial printer — not a security printer — working under wartime conditions with whatever paper stock was available. The notes are accordingly fragile, and survivors with intact margins are genuinely uncommon.