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10 Pesos

Issuer Province of Palawan
Year 1943
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Reference(s) P#819
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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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Reverse lettering ₱10
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Comments

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.

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