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50 Centavos
| Issuer | Free Samar Currency Board |
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| Year | 1943 |
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| Value | 50 Centavos (0.50) |
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| Obverse description | Plain light-coloured note with a decorative border running along all four edges. The central text reads 'The Commonwealth Government Will Pay The Bearer On Demand' above the large denomination legend 'FIFTY CENTAVOS' in bold letterpress. Below, the inscriptions 'In Lawful Currency of the Philippines' and 'Free Samar Currency Board' are printed, with three manuscript signatures accompanied by the printed titles 'Prov. Fiscal / Member', 'Prov. Auditor / Chairman', and 'Prov. Treasurer / Member'. Serial numbers appear in red at the left and right margins, and 'Series of 1943' is inscribed at the top centre. |
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| Reverse lettering | 50 CENTAVOS 50 TREASURY EMERGENCY CURRENCY CERTIFICATE FIFTY CENTAVOS Issued by The Free Samar Currency Board By Authority of the President of the Commonwealth of the Philippines |
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The Free Samar Currency Board was one of several guerrilla currency authorities that emerged across the Philippine islands after the Japanese occupation began in 1942. These local boards operated under varying degrees of official sanction from the Commonwealth government-in-exile, issuing notes to keep commerce functioning in areas outside Japanese control — or to at least deny the occupiers a monetary monopoly.
Samar's guerrilla currency is among the less documented of the Philippine resistance issues. P#S1105 sits in a catalog series where provenance and surviving quantities are poorly recorded, and distinguishing genuine wartime circulation pieces from later reproductions requires careful paper and ink analysis.