Philippine Culion Money

The Culion Leper colony was administered by the Commonwealth Bureau of Health. Normal monthly expenditure was about 25,000 pesos, most of which was obtained directly from Manila. The outbreak of the war effectively severed source of supply.
Funds on hand were nearly exhausted in meeting the December 1941 payroll. The special Culion coinage was reissued, but was only a stop-gap measure. In late January 1942 at a public meeting, a proposal was adopted to issue a local scrip. A Currency Committeee was formed consisting of Dr. H. W. Wade, Medical Director of the Leonard Wood Memorial, as Chairman, with Acting Chief Pathologist Jose O. Nolasco and Disbursing Officer Julio Lisboa as Members.
The scrip was mimeographed on pink paper for centavo denominations and blue paper for peso denominations. The Bureau of Health stamping was applied on the back in blue. Notes were dipped in paraffin for durability.
Even so, the scrip was accepted with reluctance, and an appeal was made to President Quezon who telegraphed on February 9, 1942:
IF NECESSARY ISSUE NOTES FOR PAYMENT OF SALARIES AND OTHER EXPENSE. THESE NOTES WILL BE REDEEMED BY GOVERNMENT LATER.
A total of 144,485 pesos was printed, but only 92,130 pesos placed in circulation. When Japanese military scrip arrived at the end of July 1942, use of Culion scrip was officially prohibited.
(from catalogue)

1c 1942
This Certifies That The
PHILIPINES COMMONWEALTH
BUREAU OF HEALTH
CULION LEPER COLONY
Is Obligated to Pay the Bearer
::::::-One Centavo-:::::::
Issued by the Authority of the
PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES
Transamitted 2/9/42 through the
Commanding General, USAFFE, Iloilo



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