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10 Centavos
| Issuer | Calape Emergency Currency Board |
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| Year | 1943 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Uniface emergency currency certificate printed in black letterpress on plain paper stock, with the denomination numeral '10' repeated in the upper corners. The text body is arranged in multiple lines across the face, with a red serial number printed at lower left and a red control number at lower right. Three manuscript signatures appear at the bottom, designating the Member, Chairman, and Member of the Currency Board. |
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| Reverse description | Plain paper reverse with no printed design, bearing a rectangular border formed by ruled lines dividing the surface into a grid pattern. Light handwritten markings are visible at lower left, consistent with administrative notations. The surface shows natural aging and staining typical of wartime emergency currency. |
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Calape is a municipality on Bohol island in the central Philippines. Like dozens of other local government units during the Japanese occupation, it issued its own emergency currency after the Philippine Commonwealth peso became effectively unusable in occupied zones. These hyperlocal notes — backed by nothing more than local authority and necessity — were produced under improvised conditions, often on whatever paper was available, which makes condition highly variable across the surviving population.
Bohol's guerrilla resistance was among the most organized in the archipelago, and local scrip issues like this one served a practical dual purpose: maintaining commerce and implicitly refusing Japanese military peso authority.