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50 Centavos
| Issuer | Municipality of Oras, Samar |
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| Year | 1943 |
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| Value | 50 Centavos (0.50) |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress-printed emergency certificate of deposit in black on cream paper, with the denomination numeral 50 appearing in each corner and in bold central text flanked by the words FIFTY in rectangular cartouches at left and right. The body of the note carries the full redemption pledge in plain typeface, below which appear three manuscript signatures attributed to the Municipal Mayor, Battalion Commander, and Municipal Treasurer. A simple ruled border frames the entire design. |
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| Obverse lettering | COMMONWEALTH OF THE PHILIPPINES MUNICIPALITY OF ORAS SAMAR BY AUTHORITY OF THE MUNICIPAL COUNCIL AS PER RESOLUTION NO. 10, S. 1943 50 CENTAVOS 50 THIS CERTIFIES THAT THE MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENT OF ORAS, SAMAR, WILL REDEEM THIS CERTIFICATE OF DEPOSIT AT FACE VALUE FROM THE BEARER ON DEMAND IN LAWFUL CURRENCY OF THE PHILIPPINES MUN. MAYOR BN. COMMANDER MUN. TREASURER |
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| Comments |
Municipal emergency notes from the Japanese occupation of the Philippines are among the most historically compressed objects in Philippine numismatics. When the Japanese Military Administration's peso notes flooded the islands after 1942, many municipalities issued their own guerrilla or emergency currency to sustain local commerce — Oras, a small coastal municipality on the eastern shore of Samar, was one of dozens that did so in 1943.
Samar was notably active resistance territory, and the line between officially tolerated emergency scrip and outright guerrilla currency was deliberately blurred by local officials who answered to neither Manila nor Tokyo with any reliability.