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10 Centavos
| Issuer | Municipal Government of Hilongos |
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| Year | 1941-1945 |
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| Value | 10 Centavos (0.10) |
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| Obverse lettering | TEN THE MUNICIPAL GOV'T OF HILONGOS WILL PAY THE BEARER ON DEMAND TEN CENTAVOS |
| Reverse description | Plain cream paper bearing two handwritten authorisation signatures at centre, flanked on left and right by a printed serial number in upright numerals. A small central vignette, likely a local emblem or coat of arms, appears between the signatures. The reverse is otherwise unadorned. |
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Hilongos is a municipality on the western coast of Leyte, and this note belongs to the broad category of Philippine emergency circulating notes (ECNs) produced by local governments, municipalities, and guerrilla units during the Japanese occupation. With the Commonwealth peso effectively disrupted and Japanese Military Pesos imposed by force, hundreds of local authorities improvised their own currency to keep small transactions functional.
Municipal ECNs from Leyte are among the more documented in the Philippine series, though surviving examples at the centavo denominations — the small change tier — are disproportionately scarce. They circulated hard and were worth almost nothing after the war ended.