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500 Pesos
| Issuer | Negros Emergency Currency Board |
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| Year | 1943 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Reverse description | Blue letterpress printing on white paper with a repetitive guilloche underprint carrying the text of the Commonwealth of the Philippines across the entire field. A bold decorative border in blue frames all four sides. The denomination is stated in three lines of large sans-serif type at center, with '500 PESOS' repeated in smaller type at upper left and upper right corners. Series letter 'D' appears at lower left and lower right. |
| Reverse lettering | FIVE HUNDRED PHILIPPINES PESOS 500 PESOS |
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The Negros Emergency Currency Board was one of several provisional Philippine authorities that issued guerrilla currency during the Japanese occupation — notes produced clandestinely to keep local economies functioning outside the military administration's control. The occupation forces treated possession of such currency as a serious offense, which meant these notes circulated under genuine risk to their holders.
S667 is among the higher denominations in the Negros series, and high-denomination guerrilla notes were disproportionately likely to be destroyed or hidden as the war drew to a close — either deliberately burned to avoid Japanese discovery or lost when their issuers were compromised.