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10 Centavos
| Issuer | Headquarters Volunteer Service Corps, USAFFE, Pambujan Sur, Samar |
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| Year | 1942 |
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| Obverse lettering | HEADQUARTERS VOLUNTEER SERVICE CORPS, AUSA IN THE FIELD PAMBUJAN SUR, SAMAR, PHILIPPINES NOV 15, 1942 SERIAL NO. CIRCULATING NOTES HEADQUARTERS VOLUNTEER SERVICE CORPS AUSAFFE S/1942 will pay the bearer on demand TEN CENTAVOS 10¢ Finance Officer Commanding Officer Adjutant |
| Reverse description | Plain unprinted paper reverse bearing a single large violet circular handstamp applied at centre, partially legible, reading 'HEADQUARTERS VOLUNTEER SERVICE CORPS' around the circumference with an indistinct central device, serving as the sole authentication mark on this side. |
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One of hundreds of emergency guerrilla currency issues produced across the Philippine islands following the Japanese occupation of 1942, this note was issued by a local volunteer unit operating under the United States Army Forces in the Far East command structure. The USAFFE umbrella gave these local issues a thin veneer of military legitimacy, though in practice each issuing body improvised with whatever printing and paper resources were at hand.
Pambujan Sur, a small municipality on the northern coast of Samar, was sufficiently remote to sustain a degree of resistance activity. The handstamp security feature reflects the near-total absence of formal printing infrastructure — authentication was a matter of a rubber stamp and local trust.