Catalog
50 Centavos
| Issuer | Katipunan sa Kaluwasan sang Ka-anakan sang Kapupud-an, Masbate |
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| Year | 1944 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Printed in black letterpress and orange on grid-lined paper with a ruled border incorporating the letter 'K' at each corner, the obverse carries a circular red seal at left bearing the 'KKKK' monogram over a cogwheel motif as the issuing authority's emblem. An orange vignette to the right depicts two guerrilla fighters holding a flag, while the denomination 'FIFTY CENTAVOS' is rendered as a large orange underprint across the central field. The issuer's name appears in bold black letterpress above the central panel, with the redemption obligation in cursive script below. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in brown on grid-lined paper sharing the same corner 'K' ruled border as the obverse. A central martial vignette comprises crossed rifles and a bolo knife arranged over a cogwheel motif, framing a panel with the issuer's name in white-reserve lettering on a solid brown ground. The denomination 'FIFTY CENTAVOS' is split into two lines appearing above and below the central panel. |
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The Katipunan sa Kaluwasan sang Ka-anakan sang Kapupud-an was a guerrilla civil administration operating on Masbate Island during the Japanese occupation of the Philippines. Like dozens of similar provincial and municipal emergency issuers across the archipelago, it produced low-denomination guerrilla currency to keep local trade functioning after Japanese military scrip and pre-war Commonwealth notes became either distrusted or unavailable in the interior.
Masbate guerrilla notes are among the more obscure in the Philippine emergency currency series — the island's small population and limited printing resources kept production volumes low. P#S461 is one of only a handful of denominations attributed to this particular issuing body.