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2 Pesos
| Issuer | Province of Palawan, Brooke's Point |
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| Year | 1944 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | CIRCULATING PAPER BILL P.O PESOS Is lawful Currency of the Philippines |
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| Protection type | Official stamp |
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Palawan's wartime emergency currency was authorized under the Philippine Commonwealth's decentralized guerrilla finance system, which permitted individual provinces and municipalities to issue their own scrip when Japanese occupation cut off access to central government funds. Brooke's Point, on the southern tip of Palawan, was one of the last areas of the island to fall under sustained Japanese pressure — the relative isolation of that coastline gave local authorities enough operational breathing room to actually put scrip into circulation rather than simply print and destroy it.
The official stamp as the sole security feature was typical of these provincial issues, where speed mattered more than sophistication. Authentication relied entirely on the stamping authority's physical seal rather than any printing-press security element.