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20 Centavos
| Issuer | Commonwealth of the Philippines / Provincial Government of Nueva Vizcaya |
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| Value | 20 Centavos |
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| Reverse description | Plain, unprinted reverse with faint pink handwritten countersignatures or endorsement markings in ink, consistent with wartime emergency issue practice. No printed design, text, or vignette is present. |
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| Signature(s) | Cirilo Torralba and Rodrigo Acosta |
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Nueva Vizcaya's wartime emergency issues are among the least-documented provincial notes of the Japanese occupation period. This 20 Centavos was authorized under the Commonwealth government-in-resistance framework, which permitted provincial and local civil authorities to produce their own currency as Japanese-issued Mickey Mouse money flooded the lowlands. Nueva Vizcaya, landlocked in the northern Cordillera interior, remained partially outside Japanese administrative control longer than coastal provinces, giving its guerrilla-aligned civil government unusual operational latitude.
Torralba and Acosta as co-signatories suggest dual civilian authority — a treasurer and a governor, most likely — a pairing required to authenticate emergency scrip and deter forgery within the issuing province itself.