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50 Centavos
| Issuer | Tubigon Change Board |
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| Year | 1943 |
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| Value | 50 Centavos (0.50) |
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| Obverse description | Printed in black letterpress on plain paper with a guilloche-patterned border running along both vertical margins. The denomination '50' appears in large numerals at upper left and lower right, with the text 'TUBIGON CHANGE BOARD / WILL PAY THE BEARER ON DEMAND / FIFTY CENTAVOS' in the upper central field; a red serial number is printed twice horizontally across the centre. At lower centre, the circulation area inscription reads 'CALAPE – TUBIGON – CLARIN / MUNICIPAL TREASURY', below which three manuscript signatures appear above the printed titles 'Member', 'Chairman', and 'Member'. |
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| Reverse lettering | 50 |
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Tubigon is a municipality on the island of Bohol in the Philippines. During the Japanese occupation, the Philippine Commonwealth government and hundreds of local authorities — municipal, provincial, and guerrilla — issued their own emergency currency when official money became scarce or distrusted. The Tubigon Change Board was one of these hyperlocal issuers, producing small-denomination fractional notes to keep daily commerce moving in the absence of reliable coin or centrally issued scrip.
Change board notes from Bohol municipalities are among the more obscure pieces of Philippine emergency currency. Documentation is fragmentary, and many issues survive in tiny numbers, often from a single hoard.