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10 Centavos
| Issuer | Aklan Emergency Currency Board |
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| Year | 1942 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Plain paper note of wartime emergency issue, printed in blue-green ink by letterpress. The face carries multiple lines of text arranged centrally, with the denomination numeral '10' appearing at lower left and right flanking the word 'CENTAVOS'. A light guilloche-style underprint pattern borders the note. |
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| Obverse lettering | TEN CENTAVOS ON DEMAND AKLAN EMERGENCY BILLS ISSUED BY ORDER OF COMMDR. 2ND BN,. 64TH INF USA FIRST ISSUE 10 CENTAVOS 10 |
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The Aklan Emergency Currency Board was one of dozens of local Philippine authorities that printed emergency guerrilla currency during the Japanese occupation. Aklan, a province in the Visayas, operated outside Japanese-controlled banking channels — these notes functioned as a parallel economy, backed by nothing more formal than provincial authority and the expectation of eventual Allied liberation.
Low-denomination centavo notes like this saw the hardest circulation, passed hand to hand for basic goods when coins disappeared from daily use. The survival rate for small Aklan issues is poor precisely because of that heavy handling.