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20 Pesos
| Issuer | Province of Palawan, Brooke's Point |
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| Year | 1944 |
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| Currency | Philippine Peso (1898-date) |
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| Obverse description | Typeset emergency issue printed in blue-violet ink on plain paper. The face carries the heading CIRCULATING PAPER BILL at top, with serial number 602 repeated at left and right, the date Sept. 22 1944, and the denomination numeral 20 with the word PESOS at each upper corner. The central text reads THE PROVINCE OF PALAWAN WILL PAY THE BEARER ON DEMAND / TWENTY PESOS, followed by the pledge in lawful currency of the Philippines, with three manuscript signatures across the lower portion accompanied by the printed titles J. of the Peace, Mun. Dist. Treas., and Member. |
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| Obverse lettering | CIRCULATING PAPER BILL No. 602 Sept. 22 1944 No. 602 20 PESOS 20 PESOS Authorized Letter P.T. June 24 THE PROVINCE OF PALAWAN WILL PAY THE BEARER ON DEMAND TWENTY PESOS in lawful currency of the Philippines J. of the Peace Mun. Dist. Treas. Member |
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Brooke's Point — a small settlement on the southern tip of Palawan — became one of the few functioning civil authorities in the Philippines capable of issuing emergency currency after the Japanese occupation disrupted the Commonwealth monetary system. The Province of Palawan series was part of a broader guerrilla economy, where provincial governments, sometimes coordinating with U.S.-backed resistance networks, printed local scrip to keep trade from collapsing entirely into barter.
Palawan's relative isolation from the main Japanese garrison concentrations gave its civil administration unusual room to operate. The S945 designation places this within the Philippine guerrilla issue classifications documented by Shafer and others — a category where survival rates vary sharply depending on which district issued and how close combat came before liberation in 1945.