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50 Centavos
| Issuer | Mindanao Emergency Currency Board |
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| Year | 1943 |
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| Currency | Peso (1941-1945) |
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| Obverse lettering | FIFTY CENTAVOS TREASURY EMERGENCY CURRENCY CERTIFICATE BY AUTHORITY OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF THE PHILIPPINES THIS CERTIFIES THAT THE COMMONWEALTH GOVERNMENT OF THE PHILIPPINES WILL REDEEM THIS CERTIFICATE AT FACE VALUE UPON TERMINATION OF EMERGENCY SERIES OF 1943 FIFTY CENTAVOS MINDANAO EMERGENCY CURRENCY BOARD FLORENTINO SAGUIN CHAIRMAN P.D. PACANA I. BARBASA MEMBERS FIFTY CENTAVOS |
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| Reverse lettering | 50 cts. FIFTY CENTAVOS cts. 50 ISSUED BY THE MINDANAO EMERGENCY CURRENCY BOARD PHILIPPINES This note is redeemable at face value after the emergency and will not be devaluated or discriminated against Kining sapi-a kailisan sumala sa iyang bili tapus ang kagubut ug dili kakubsan ni kaayran Counterfeiting of this note will be severely punished Mabug-at nga silot ipahamtang sa maga kawat pag sundog ning sapia 50 cts. FIFTY CENTAVOS cts. 50 |
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The Mindanao Emergency Currency Board was one of several provincial currency authorities established in the Philippines after the Japanese occupation disrupted normal banking in 1942. These guerrilla-backed notes were produced under extremely difficult conditions — limited paper stocks, improvised printing, and constant threat of discovery — which makes consistent quality across the series essentially impossible to find. Mindanao issues in particular circulated in a theater where Japanese counter-guerrilla operations were intensive.
Florentino Saguin's signature as the authorizing officer ties this note to the civil administration that continued to function, however precariously, under American-aligned Filipino leadership during the occupation.