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10 Pesos
| Issuer | Bohol Emergency Currency Board |
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| Year | 1942 |
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| Size | 158 × 68 mm |
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| Obverse description | The face is dominated by bold letterpress text stating the denomination TEN PESOS at centre, with the redemption pledge issued by authority of the President of the Philippines arranged in typeset lines above and below. The Commonwealth of the Philippines seal appears as a circular vignette at right. The serial number is printed in red at upper right and lower left, with a decorative guilloche border framing the entire note; three signature lines with printed titles — Actg. Prov. Treas. Member, Prov. Auditor Chairman, and Prov. Fiscal Member — appear along the lower margin. |
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| Reverse lettering | TEN PESOS ISSUED BY THE BOHOL EMERGENCY CURRENCY BOARD TAGBILARAN, BOHOL TEN PESOS PHILIPPINES TEN PESOS |
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The Bohol Emergency Currency Board was one of dozens of provincial and municipal currency authorities established across the Philippine archipelago following the Japanese occupation of Manila in early 1942. With the Commonwealth government in exile and Japanese military scrip being forced into circulation, local boards issued their own paper to keep commerce functioning — operating largely on public trust and whatever paper stock was available.
The April 1945 print date is telling. By then, MacArthur's forces had already returned to Luzon; Bohol was still under Japanese occupation, meaning this note was printed and circulated under active wartime conditions, not in some administrative rear area.