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1 Peso
| Issuer | Province of Palawan |
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| Year | 1944 |
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| Reference(s) | P#S936 |
| Obverse description | Letterpress-printed emergency circulating note in blue-black ink on plain paper stock, dated May 29, 1944, with serial number at upper left and right. The central text reads 'THE PROVINCE OF PALAWAN WILL PAY THE BEARER ON DEMAND / ONE PESO' above the legend 'Legal Currency of the Philippines,' flanked on each side by large numeral '1' vignettes. Three manuscript signatures appear at the lower portion, attributed to the Justice of the Peace, Municipal District Treasurer, and a Member, with their respective titles printed beneath. |
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| Obverse lettering | CIRCULATING PAPER BILL May 29, 1944 Authorized Letter E.F. May 9, 1944 THE PROVINCE OF PALAWAN WILL PAY THE BEARER ON DEMAND ONE PESO Legal Currency of the Philippines No. 0401 |
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One of several emergency guerrilla currency issues produced in the Philippine provinces during the Japanese occupation. Palawan's wartime government, operating under significant duress, issued these notes to maintain some functional local economy outside Japanese-controlled military scrip. The province's relative geographic isolation — long, narrow, and difficult to patrol — gave local Philippine Commonwealth officials enough operational space to sustain a parallel civil administration longer than most.
Emergency issues from Palawan are among the scarcer provincial guerrilla notes; the small population meant lower print runs, and wartime conditions destroyed much of what circulated.