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50 Centavos
| Issuer | Municipality of Guiuan (Province of Eastern Samar) |
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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 a dense border of repeated '50' numerals running along all four margins. A large bold '50¢' denomination numeral occupies the central field as an underprint, overlaid by several lines of text in English. The serial number appears in red ink in the upper portion of the note, with two manuscript signatures at the foot identifying the Mayor and Judge. |
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| Obverse lettering | GUIUAN, SAMAR, PHILIPPINES July 15, 1943 UNITED STATES ARMED FORCES IN THE PHILIPPINES IN THE FIELD WAR CIRCULATING NOTE UNITED STATES ARMED FORCES IN THE PHILIPPINES WILL PAY THE BEARER ON DEMAND AFTER THE PERIOD OF EMERGENCY FIFTY CENTAVOS 50¢ |
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Municipal emergency currency issued during the Japanese occupation of the Philippines, when the military-issued "Mickey Mouse money" had already begun its inflationary collapse and local officials scrambled to create something the population might actually trust for small transactions. Guiuan, at the southeastern tip of Samar, would become strategically significant the following year — MacArthur's forces used it as a staging base for the October 1944 Leyte Gulf operation, which means notes still in local circulation at that point were almost certainly destroyed, lost, or abandoned in the upheaval.
Municipal issues of this type were printed on whatever paper was available locally, with no standardized security features. Survival rate is low.