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1 Peso Small heading
| Issuer | Mountain Province (Philippines) |
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| Year | 1942 |
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| Currency | Peso (1941-1945) |
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| Obverse lettering | MOUNTAIN PROVINCE EMERGENCY NOTE SERIES A THIS CERTIFIES THAT THERE HAS BEEN DEPOSITED IN THE PHILIPPINE NATIONAL BANK THE EQUIVALENT OF ONE PESO REDEEMABLE IN THE CURRENCY OF THE PHILIPPINE COMMONWEALTH AFTER THIS EMERGENCY PROVINCIAL GOVERNOR PROVINCIAL TREASURER COUNTERSIGNED PROVINCIAL AUDITOR BY ASST. PROVINCIAL TREASURER |
| Reverse description | Letterpress-printed in red ink over a light blue underprint of mirror-image text, within a red ornamental border of scrollwork and curvilinear flourishes. The denomination 'ONE PESO' appears at the top and is repeated at the foot, with 'P 1 P' corner markers, while the body text sets out the legal tender authority and validity conditions of the note. |
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Mountain Province was one of several Philippine provincial governments that issued emergency guerrilla currency during the Japanese occupation — but its notes occupy a distinct position in that story. Unlike many provincial issues that operated covertly, Mountain Province administration maintained a degree of functioning civil government in the Cordillera highlands, partly because Japanese control over the interior was never complete.
The "Small heading" designation distinguishes this variety from a parallel issue with a larger typeface on the same line — a subtle difference that matters considerably to completists, as the two types were likely produced in separate print runs under difficult wartime conditions with inconsistent materials.