Japanese Government Ten Centavos money?

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When going through old family pictures to make a genology tree, we found what looked like play money that said "Japanese government ten centavos" in perfect condition.

anyone know what this is? 

http://www.geocities.com/drea_me_3000/tencentavos.jpg
http://www.geocities.com/drea_me_3000/backtencent.jpg

simplicitus · Accepted Answer

This was asked two years ago on Yahoo Answers and was answered then:
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20071106131903AAuRLZF
These are notes issued by the Japanese for the Philippines
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_government-issued_Philippine_fiat_peso
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_invasion_money

Barbara · Answer

They are from the Philippines. I have some of the same kind of money. While the traditional language of the Philippines is Tagalog, they were under Spanish control for a century or longer until the Spanish-American War (hence the Spanish and the use of a peso), when the USA took over the Philippines for three decades, adding the English component, until the Japanese took over. Hence the mixture. It's a great piece of history, it doesn't have that massive amount of value to it the last time I checked, but it's great to show the grandchildren and tell a story of history and war.

Japanese Government Ten Centavos money?

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