Wartime banknotes on display in BPI museum

WARTIME MONEY. Among the “relics” displayed at the Bank of PI museum-Cebu are old money circulated here under various colonial regimes. Among them are the wartime (WW II) Japanese paper bills and some “emergency notes” printed on bond paper and circulated by the guerillas and accepted as legal tender. The Japanese banknotes were called “Kura” by Cebuanos.

NEWSPRINT MONEY. One guerilla veteran told an Ear informer that his guerilla unit printed “emergency notes” on newsprint using an old mimeograph machine. “Lupig pay kuwarta sa bubble gum pero gidawat isip legal tender,” the guerilla vet told the Ear informer. “Pipila niini gidispli tingali diha sa BPI museum.”