FREE: 2 ea Imperial Japan Occupation Notes 50 Centavos Philippine Islands WWII

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Invasion money - 1,5,10 and 50 centavos - Philippines WW2 1940s

The Japanese government-issued bank notes were a form of currency issued by Imperial Japan during the Japanese occupation of several countries between 1942 and 1945. The currency was also referred informally (and with more than a trace of contempt) as banana money, named as such because of the motifs of banana trees on 10 dollar banknotes. The Japanese paper notes were in widespread use within the occupied territories where the previous currency became a scarcity. The currency were referred to as "dollars" and "cents" like its predecessors, the Straits dollar and Malayan dollar.
The Japanese dollar was one of several forms of Japanese invasion money issued throughout the then newly expanded Empire of Japan. Similar currencies were issued in Japanese-occupied Burma (as the Japanese rupee), the Dutch East Indies (as the Japanese guilder) and the Philippines (as the Japanese peso).
By the end of World War II, Invasion Monies had been issued for the Philippines, Burma (now Myanmar), Malaya, North Borneo and Sarawak (now Malaysia), Singapore, Brunei, the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia) and some areas of Oceania (New Guinea and the Solomon and Gilbert islands).The Japanese Government at the time was even confident of occupying Australia, so produced notes of pounds and shillings for that country. They never did occupy Australia.