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| Uitgever | Leyte Emergency Currency Board |
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| Jaar | 1942 |
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| Valuta | Peso (1941-1945) |
| Samenstelling | Log in om details te zien |
| Afmetingen | Log in om details te zien |
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| Ontwerper(s) | Log in om details te zien |
| Graveur(s) | Log in om details te zien |
| In omloop tot | Log in om details te zien |
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| Beschrijving keerzijde | Plain green letterpress back with large underprint text reading ONE PESO and LEYTE EMERGENCY CURRENCY BOARD, TACLOBAN, PHILIPPINES repeated across the field as a security underprint. The series designation and serial number appear in orange at upper center, and the legend ONE PESO is inscribed at top and bottom borders. |
| Opschrift keerzijde | ONE PESO LEYTE EMERGENCY CURRENCY BOARD TACLOBAN, PHILIPPINES SERIES |
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| Opmerkingen |
The Leyte Emergency Currency Board was one of several provincial currency authorities established in the Philippine Commonwealth after the Japanese invasion severed normal banking operations in late 1941 and early 1942. These boards operated under extraordinary wartime conditions, producing notes locally with whatever printing resources remained available — often commercial job presses never intended for currency work.
Leyte's issues are among the better-documented Philippine guerrilla currency series, in part because American forces returned to Leyte in October 1944, meaning some administrative records survived. The S394 peso circulated in a relatively confined geographic area under constant pressure from Japanese occupation authorities, who periodically attempted to suppress guerrilla currency use entirely.