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10 Pesos
| Issuer | Province of Palawan |
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| Year | 1943 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | A wartime emergency guerrilla note printed on plain paper, with the heading CIRCULATING PAPER BILL at top. The central text reads THE PROVINCE OF PALAWAN WILL PAY THE BEARER ON DEMAND / TEN PESOS / In Lawful Currency of the Philippines, with serial number and authorization by Act No. 56 of 1943 of the Provincial Board noted in the upper portion. Three manuscript signatures appear along the lower margin, each attributed to the Prov. Governor, Prov. Treasurer, and Prov. Auditor respectively, with a repeated X-pattern underprint border running along the edges. |
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| Obverse lettering | CIRCULATING PAPER BILL No.2454-B Authorized by Act No. 56, Fo. 1943 No.2454-B of the Provincial Board As Needed 10 Pesos THE PROVINCE OF PALAWAN WILL PAY THE BEARER ON DEMAND TEN PESOS In Lawful Currency of the Philippines Prov. Governor Prov. Treasurer Prov. Auditor |
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Philippine provincial emergency notes issued during the Japanese occupation are a specialized field, and Palawan's issues sit at the rarer end of the series. The island's geographic isolation from Luzon meant that locally-issued guerrilla and emergency currency circulated with genuine necessity rather than as symbolic gesture — Japanese military scrip had effectively displaced the Commonwealth peso across most of the archipelago by mid-1943.
Pick 819 is one of several denominations authorized by the Palawan provincial government under occupation-era emergency powers. Survival rates for these provincial issues are low; the paper quality was poor to begin with, and wartime humidity in the region accelerated deterioration.