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2 Pesos
| Issuer | Provincial Board of Mountain Province |
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| Year | 1942 |
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| Value | 2 Pesos |
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| Obverse description | Olive-green emergency note with a decorative fleur-de-lis and scroll border frame. The central text certifies deposit with the Philippine National Bank, with the denomination TWO PESOS in large bold letterpress type flanked by serial numbers on both sides. The lower portion carries four signature lines for the Provincial Governor, Provincial Treasurer, Provincial Auditor, and Assistant Provincial Treasurer, with P2P denominator indicators at each corner. |
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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 TWO PESOS Redeemable in the Currency of the Philippine Commonwealth after this Emergency. PROVINCIAL GOVERNOR PROVINCIAL TREASURER Countersigned: PROVINCIAL AUDITOR ASST. PROVINCIAL TREASURER No |
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Mountain Province was one of several Philippine administrative regions that issued emergency guerrilla currency after the Japanese occupation disrupted normal banking in early 1942. The Provincial Board had no printing infrastructure to speak of, and these notes were produced under genuinely improvised conditions — locally sourced paper, hand-stamped or rudimentarily typeset, with serial numbering often applied inconsistently across the series.
The S-prefix in the Pick reference denotes Philippine emergency and guerrilla issues catalogued separately from the central series. S602 is among the rarer provincial entries; Mountain Province's remote terrain isolated it from both Japanese administration and Allied resupply, which affected how broadly these notes actually circulated before the liberation.