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1 Peso
| Issuer | Free Negros Military Currency Committee |
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| Year | 1943 |
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| Value | 1 Peso |
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| Obverse description | Black letterpress text on cream paper, enclosed within a continuous decorative border of geometric and floral guilloche elements, with the denomination numeral '1' repeated in each vertical margin. The central text block carries the issuing authority legend in graduated type sizes, the largest reading 'ONE PESO' in bold block letters. Below the denomination text, three manuscript signatures appear over printed title lines identifying the Auditor, Chairman, and Member of the Free Negros Military Currency Committee. |
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| Obverse lettering | MILITARY SCRIPT OF 1943 THE ARMY OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA WILL PAY TO THE BEARER ON DEMAND ONE PESO IN LAWFUL CURRENCY OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA OR OF THE PHILIPPINES ISSUED BY AUTHORITY OF THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF OF THE SOUTH WEST PACIFIC 7TH MILITARY DISTRICT FREE NEGROS MILITARY CURRENCY COMMITTEE |
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The Free Negros Military Currency Committee was one of several provincial guerrilla currency authorities operating in the Visayas during the Japanese occupation of the Philippines. These emergency issues were authorized under the broader framework of guerrilla resistance finance — local commanders needed a medium of exchange that their populations would accept and Japanese-issued Mickey Mouse money could not fill. Negros Island sustained unusually organized resistance throughout the occupation, which gave its emergency currency more genuine circulation than most.
The S715 series is among the harder Negros issues to find in collectible condition, largely because it actually circulated under difficult tropical conditions rather than sitting in military reserve.