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this note is from WWII when Japan occupied the Philippines. the value on the bill is 5 pesos.
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hello youve been fanned looks like a nice note
Jan 16th, 2012 at 10:21:46 PM PST by
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thanks. fanned you back
Jan 18th, 2012 at 12:49:31 PM PST by
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Why is it in English why not Japanese?
Jan 18th, 2012 at 1:58:25 PM PST by
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During World War II in the Philippines, the occupying Japanese government issued fiat currency in several denominations; this is known as the Japanese government-issued Philippine fiat peso. The Japanese-sponsored Second Philippine Republic under Jose P. Laurel outlawed possession of guerrilla currency, and declared a monopoly on the issuance of money, so that anyone found to possess guerrilla notes could be arrested.

Some Filipinos called the fiat peso "Mickey Mouse money". Many survivors of the war[who?] tell stories of going to the market laden with suitcases or "bayong" (native bags made of woven coconut or buri leaf strips) overflowing with the Japanese-issued bills. According to one witness, 75 "Mickey Mouse" pesos, or about 35 U.S. dollars at that time, could buy one duck egg.[1] In 1944, a box of matches cost more than 100 Mickey Mouse pesos.[2]

These bills were often used by American psychological warfare personnel as propaganda leaflets. Japanese occupation banknotes were overprinted with the words "The Co-prosperity Sphere: What is it worth?", in an attempt to discredit the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere, and dropped from Allied aircraft over the occupied territories
HOPE THIS HELPS...LEGENDS MARK
Jan 18th, 2012 at 11:23:58 PM PST by

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