10 Pesos

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.