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50 Centavos
| Issuer | Headquarters Volunteer Service Corps, Salcedo, Samar |
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| Year | 1943 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress-printed emergency issue on aged paper in black ink, with the large bold denomination numeral '50¢' dominating the centre of the note. Text arranged across the face includes the issuing authority, place of issue, and promise-to-pay legend, with the date 'Feb. 22, 1943' and red handwritten serial numbers appearing at left and right. Signature lines for Acting Mayor and Municipal Treasurer appear at the foot, each accompanied by the repeated inscription 'SALCEDO SAMAR'. |
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| Obverse lettering | FIFTY CENTAVOS SALCEDO, SAMAR, PHILIPPINES WAR CIRCULATING NOTES HEADQUARTERS VOLUNTEER SERVICE CORPS IN THE FIELD WILL PAY THE BEARER ON DEMAND FIFTY CENTAVOS 50¢ SALCEDO SAMAR |
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The Volunteer Service Corps was one of scores of local Filipino guerrilla and civil resistance organizations that issued emergency currency during the Japanese occupation. Salcedo is a small municipality on the eastern coast of Samar, an island where Japanese control was consistently contested and conventional banking had completely collapsed by 1943. Notes of this type were printed locally to facilitate basic commerce and pay irregular forces — the issuing authority, not any central bank, stood behind the paper.
Provincial emergency issues from Samar are among the more difficult Philippine guerrilla notes to authenticate, given the primitive printing conditions and the number of later fabrications that entered the market.