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50 Centavos
| Issuer | Municipal Government of Guiuan, Samar |
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| Year | 1943 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Uniface emergency issue printed in black letterpress text on plain paper, with the value "50 ¢" rendered in a large purple overprint at centre. The serial number appears in red at upper right, and the body of the note carries the full text of the obligation in English across multiple lines. Three signature lines appear at the bottom, attributed to the Mayor, Judge, and Treasurer respectively. |
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| Obverse lettering | WAR CIRCULATING NOTE GUIUAN, SAMAR THE MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENT OF GUIUAN WILL PAY THE BEARER ON DEMAND FIFTY CENTAVOS WHICH HAS BEEN DEPOSITED IN THE TREASURY AS INSTRUCTED BY THE M.V.S.C. USAFFE IN THE FIELD 50 ¢ |
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Guiuan sits at the southeastern tip of Samar, and in 1943 it was under Japanese occupation. This note is a product of that disruption — local Philippine municipal governments, cut off from Manila and from any functioning central monetary authority, issued their own emergency guerrilla or occupation-period scrip to keep local commerce moving. Whether this particular issue was sanctioned by Filipino resistance forces or produced under Japanese-supervised civilian administration is a distinction that matters: guerrilla currency was technically illegal under occupation law and carried real risk for anyone caught holding it.
Municipal scrip of this type was printed on whatever paper was locally available, typically by hand or with rudimentary equipment. Survival rates are low.