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20 Centavos
| Issuer | Aklan Emergency Currency Board |
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| Year | 1942 |
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| Value | 20 Centavos (0.20) |
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| Obverse description | Plain printed emergency note on thin paper stock, with text-only layout in reddish-brown letterpress ink. The upper portion carries the denomination title and promise-to-pay clause, while the lower portion bears the large numeral denominational value. A decorative border of small repeated ornamental devices frames the entire face. |
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| Reverse description | Reverse is plain, unprinted paper with no design elements, text, or security features; the note's heavily aged and worn surface reveals extensive creasing and foxing consistent with wartime emergency issue paper stock. |
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One of dozens of provincial emergency issues authorized by the Philippine Commonwealth government after Japanese forces severed normal currency supply lines following the December 1941 invasion. Aklan, a small province on Panay island, printed its own scrip through a locally constituted emergency board — an improvised arrangement replicated across the archipelago with wildly varying print quality and paper stock.
The Aklan series is among the scarcer provincial Panay issues. Many were deliberately destroyed after liberation to prevent Japanese confiscation or post-war fraud claims, which accounts for survival rates that remain low even in circulated grades.