50 Centavos

One of several emergency currency series authorized by provincial and local governments across the Philippines following the Japanese invasion in late 1941 and early 1942. With the Commonwealth peso effectively cut off from reliable supply and Japanese military scrip being imposed, local authorities moved quickly to issue their own notes to keep commerce functioning. The Negros Occidental series was among the more formally organized of these efforts, backed by provincial committee authority rather than issued ad hoc by individual municipalities.

Printed locally under occupation conditions, paper quality and impression consistency vary considerably across surviving examples. The S-prefix Pick designation flags it as a guerrilla or emergency issue.