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2 Pesos
| Issuer | Negros Occidental Provincial Currency Committee |
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| Year | 1942 |
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| Currency | Philippine Peso (1898-date) |
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| Obverse description | Blue and white emergency circulating note with a decorative guilloche border. At center-left, a vignette of a male portrait in profile faces right, flanked by the large numeral '2' on both sides; the central text block reads 'THE COMMONWEALTH OF THE PHILIPPINES WILL PAY TO THE BEARER ON DEMAND TWO PESOS IN LAWFUL CURRENCY OF THE PHILIPPINES.' A circular red official seal of the City of Bacolod is applied at the right, with three facsimile signature lines at lower center identifying the Provincial Fiscal Member, Provincial Treasurer Chairman, and Provincial Auditor Member. |
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| Obverse lettering | TWO PESOS EMERGENCY CIRCULATING NOTE OF 1942 ISSUED BY AUTHORITY OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES ON JANUARY 20, 1942 THE COMMONWEALTH OF THE PHILIPPINES WILL PAY TO THE BEARER ON DEMAND TWO PESOS IN LAWFUL CURRENCY OF THE PHILIPPINES NEGROS OCCIDENTAL PROVINCIAL CURRENCY COMMITTEE SERIES OF 1942 Provincial Fiscal Member Provincial Treasurer Chairman Provincial Auditor Member |
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Negros Occidental was one of several Philippine provinces that organized its own emergency currency after the Japanese occupation severed normal banking and commerce in early 1942. The Provincial Currency Committee issues were authorized locally and printed with whatever materials were available on the island — which accounts for the considerable variation in paper stock and printing quality seen across the series. These were functional instruments of a wartime parallel economy, not a formal banking system.
S647A is among the scarcer Negros Occidental denominations. Many notes from this committee were deliberately destroyed after liberation to prevent their use or counterfeiting in the postwar transition back to official Philippine currency.