50 Centavos

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.