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10 Centavos
| Issuer | Headquarters Volunteer Service Corps USAFFE, Balangiga, Samar |
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| Year | 1943 |
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| Value | 10 Centavos (0.10) |
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| Obverse description | Printed in black letterpress on plain paper with a repeating binary border pattern of '10' and '1' along all four margins serving as a rudimentary security device. The large violet denomination numeral '10¢' is hand-stamped at centre, overlaying the black text. Three signature lines appear at the bottom for the Municipal Treasurer, Commanding Officer, and Municipal Mayor. |
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| Reverse description | Plain aged paper with a large violet hand-stamped '10¢' numeral at centre, printed in reverse orientation, indicating the stamp impressed through from the obverse. No additional text or design elements are present. |
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The Volunteer Service Corps was one of dozens of guerrilla and civilian resistance units operating across the Philippine archipelago under the loose umbrella of USAFFE — United States Army Forces in the Far East — following the fall of Bataan in April 1942. Local commanders, cut off from Manila and facing a complete collapse of the pre-war Philippine Commonwealth currency supply, authorized their own emergency scrip to keep local economies and supply networks functioning under Japanese occupation.
Balangiga, Samar carries its own loaded history — site of the 1901 massacre that triggered one of the most brutal American reprisals of the Philippine-American War. That this same town issued resistance currency forty years later is a detail the catalog data alone will never surface.