Please help ID this note

I'm guessing from Japanese occupation of the Philippines. Thanks for any information.

 

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Look at this thread from Jan 19th.. same topic
https://www.cointalk.com/threads/japanese-5-peso-bill.289767/#post-2626282

 

Is it possible to pin down the year of issue? What's the red 30 in lower left obverse?

 

This is the second series so the issue date is 1943-45.

The number 30 is a block number. Blocks started at 1. When the serial number for a block reached 9999999 the block number advanced.

 

Here,s a similar note in the 500 Peso denomination from my personal collection
Very rare in this condition even in average its a tough get !

 

Here,s a similar note in the 500 Peso denomination from my personal collection
Very rare in this condition even in average its a tough get !

 

Here,s a similar note in the 500 Peso denomination from my personal collection
Very rare in this condition even in average its a tough get !

 

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Here,s the reverse

 

Beautiful note. I only have the smaller denomination ones - those are the only ones I can afford, ha!

 

Believe it or not i only paid $17.50 for that note about two years ago, that note is
In uncirculated condition so difficult to find.

 

Here,s the 1000 peso note not as difficult as the 500 but still a tough get in this condition

 

As you can see the 1000 peso note is very small in comparison to the 500

 

I wonder why the higher value note is so much smaller...

 

The 500 was printed in Japan. The 1000 was an expedient print made in Manila.