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5 Pesos
| Issuer | Negros Occidental Provincial Currency Committee |
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| Year | 1942 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse lettering | FIVE 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 FIVE PESOS IN LAWFUL CURRENCY OF THE PHILIPPINES NEGROS OCCIDENTAL PROVINCIAL CURRENCY COMMITTEE SERIES OF 1942 PROVINCIAL FISCAL MEMBER PROVINCIAL TREASURER CHAIRMAN ACTG. PROV. AUDITOR MEMBER |
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| Reverse lettering | FIVE COMMONWEALTH OF THE PHILIPPINES FIVE PESOS V PESOS 5 |
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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 channels in early 1942. The Provincial Currency Committee had no access to security printing facilities — the Nalco Press was a local commercial operation, producing notes on whatever paper stock was available. The results were deliberately simple, partly from necessity and partly to discourage forgery through scarcity of materials rather than technical complexity.
These guerrilla-era provincial issues circulated alongside Japanese military pesos, though the local population generally trusted them more. Many were deliberately destroyed or hidden as the Japanese tightened administrative control over the islands.