Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
50 Centavos
| Issuer | Mindanao Emergency Currency Board |
|---|---|
| Year | 1943-1945 |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | 50 Centavos (0.50) |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Size | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Printer | Log in to see details |
| Designer(s) | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Log in to see details |
|---|---|
| Obverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Reverse description | The reverse is printed entirely in black letterpress on plain paper, enclosed within the same repeating ornamental border as the obverse. The denomination appears in the four corners as '50 cts.' and along the top and bottom margins as FIFTY CENTAVOS. The body of the note carries bilingual redemption and anti-counterfeiting text in both English and Visayan (Cebuano), set in italic and roman typefaces in alternating paragraphs. |
| Reverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Signature(s) | Florentino Saguin (Chairman), F. D. Pacana and I. Barbasa (Members) |
| Protection type | Log in to see details |
| Protection description | Log in to see details |
| Variants | Log in to see details |
| Comments |
The Mindanao Emergency Currency Board was one of several provincial bodies authorized to issue guerrilla currency during the Japanese occupation of the Philippines. These notes circulated in direct defiance of Japanese military scrip, which the occupation authorities declared the only legal tender — possession of guerrilla currency carried serious risk for Filipino civilians.
Three signatures appear on this note, an unusually deliberate show of institutional accountability for a wartime emergency issue. Saguin's chairmanship and the named membership suggest the Board was functioning with at least nominal administrative structure, not merely improvising under fire.
Mindanao's relative geographic isolation helped sustain guerrilla operations — and their parallel currency — longer than most occupied Philippine islands.