5 Centavos

Sibuyan Island's municipal emergency notes are among the most locally produced scrip to survive the Japanese occupation of the Philippines. Romblon province, isolated enough that Japanese military currency often arrived late and unevenly, pushed individual municipalities into issuing their own fractional notes to keep commerce moving. Sibuyan's geography — a steep, largely roadless island in the Sibuyan Sea — meant it functioned with considerable economic autonomy throughout the occupation years.

Rovira and Ramilo's dual signatures reflect the typical Philippine wartime convention of requiring both a local executive and a treasurer to authorize emergency emissions, a safeguard borrowed from pre-war Commonwealth municipal finance regulations.