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| Emittent | Luzon USAFFE Guerrilla Army Forces |
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| Jahr | 1942 |
| Typ | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Vorderseitenbeschreibung | Plain cream-toned emergency currency note with typeset text throughout. At upper centre, the inscriptions read 'United States of America / Luzon Usaffe Guerrilla Army Forces / Philippines' above the denomination 'P500' and date 'Feb. 22, 1942'. A small oval portrait vignette of President F.D. Roosevelt appears at the left, and a stylised 'V for Victory' eagle device is printed at the right, flanking the central authorization text ordering the issuance of this emergency currency of Five Hundred Pesos. Two manuscript signatures appear at the lower left and right, identified below as 'Captain, U.S. Army' and 'Major, U.S. Army' respectively, with a serial number 'No.' printed in the lower centre. |
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| Rückseitenlegende | P500 |
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| Anmerkungen |
The Luzon USAFFE Guerrilla Army Forces were among dozens of irregular Philippine units that issued emergency currency after the fall of Bataan and Corregidor in 1942. USAFFE — United States Armed Forces in the Far East — was MacArthur's combined command, and guerrilla units operating under that banner used the name to assert legitimacy against both Japanese occupation scrip and the Filipino civilian population's understandable skepticism about paper promises from fighters in the hills.
Local emergency issues like this were printed on whatever materials were available, often by provincial presses with no security printing capability. At 500 Pesos, this is a high denomination for a guerrilla issue — far more than most Filipinos would handle in ordinary transactions — suggesting it was intended partly for inter-unit or supply procurement use rather than retail commerce.