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1 Peso
| Issuer | Commonwealth of the Philippines / Provincial Government of Nueva Vizcaya |
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| Value | 1 Peso |
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| Obverse description | Plain off-white paper certificate with typewritten text arranged in multiple lines across the face. The denomination "P1.00" appears at left and right, with the issuing authority named in capital letters at centre. Three manuscript signatures appear at the lower portion, each accompanied by the respective official's title: Provincial Auditor at left, Provincial Governor at centre, and Acting Provincial Treasurer at right. Serial number printed at lower right. |
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| Reverse description | Plain, unprinted off-white paper reverse with a circular violet cancellation stamp at centre reading "OFFICE OF THE PROV. TREASURER" with a handwritten date and the location "Solano, N. Vizcaya". Additional faint handwritten notations appear at upper left. |
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Nueva Vizcaya's wartime emergency issue is one of the more administratively unusual notes from the Philippine provincial series. The three signatories — Cirilo Torralba, Demetrio Quirino, and Rodrigo Rocha — reflect the trilateral authorization structure common to provincial guerrilla-era currency, where local officials co-signed to establish legitimacy in the absence of central banking infrastructure. Demetrio Quirino was a brother of Elpidio Quirino, who would later serve as President of the Philippines, a family connection that occasionally draws collector interest disproportionate to the note's scarcity.
Nueva Vizcaya was a small, landlocked province with limited printing resources, and the production quality of S793 notes varies accordingly.