50 Centavos

One of the more precisely attributed guerrilla issues of the Philippine occupation period, this note was authorized by the Aklan Emergency Currency Board operating under the 2nd Battalion, 64th Infantry — a unit of the United States Armed Forces in the Far East that continued organized resistance in the Visayas after the fall of Bataan and Corregidor in 1942. Emergency currency boards across the Philippine provinces issued their own scrip partly to sustain local economies stripped of official tender, and partly to fund guerrilla logistics without relying on Japanese-controlled supply chains.

Aklan Province issues are among the scarcer Visayan guerrilla series in surviving collections.