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50 Centavos
| Issuer | Antequera Change Board |
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| Year | 1943 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Printed in black letterpress on plain paper, the note carries the issuing authority's name across the top, with the denomination 'FIFTY CENTAVOS' set within a central rectangular frame. Red serial numbers appear to either side of the denomination panel, and the full redemption pledge in English runs in two lines below, followed by a bottom line identifying board member signatories and the denomination in text. |
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| Reverse lettering | 50 |
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Antequera is a municipality in Bohol, Philippines. Change boards — locally called "Change Boards" or emergency currency committees — proliferated across Philippine towns during the Japanese occupation after the existing monetary system collapsed and small-denomination coinage disappeared entirely from daily commerce. These hyper-local issues were produced with whatever printing resources a municipality could secure, and their authority was essentially extralegal, backed by nothing more than community trust and the absence of alternatives.
Bohol issues from this period are among the less-documented provincial emergency notes. The absence of a Pick number here reflects that gap.