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5 Pesos
| Issuer | Negros Oriental Currency Committee |
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| Year | 1942 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Emergency circulating note printed in black on plain paper, with a ornamental border running along all four edges. A large sans-serif letter 'V' vignette occupies the lower-left quadrant as an underprint, flanked by denomination numerals '5' at each corner. Central text in bold letterpress reads 'FIVE PESOS' with authority and currency committee inscriptions above and below. Three manuscript signatures appear at the bottom, attributed to the Acting Provincial Fiscal, Acting Secretary-Treasurer (Chairman), and Acting Provincial Auditor of the Negros Oriental Currency Committee. |
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| Reverse lettering | FIVE COMMONWEALTH OF THE PHILIPPINES PESOS |
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Negros Oriental was one of several Philippine provinces that established emergency currency committees following the Japanese invasion of late 1941. The occupying forces' military pesos were distrusted, and local governments scrambled to issue their own provisional notes to keep commerce moving. Negros Oriental's series was among the more orderly of these provincial efforts, backed loosely by provincial funds and commodity reserves.
P#S658 is part of a wartime emergency issue that was explicitly temporary — most provincial notes were demonetized or simply abandoned as Japanese control tightened across the Visayas.