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20 Centavos
| Issuer | Provincial Board of the Mountain Province |
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| Year | 1942 |
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| Value | 20 Centavos (0.20) |
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| Reverse lettering | TWENTY CENTAVOS THIS NOTE IS ISSUED UNDER AUTHORITY OF THE PROVINCIAL BOARD OF THE MOUNTAIN PROVINCE DURING THIS EMERGENCY (RES. NO. 5. 8. 1942) AND IS ONLY GOOD AND NEGOTIABLE WITHIN SAID PROVINCE NOT VALID UNLESS SIGNED BY THE PROVINCIAL GOVERNOR AND PROVINCIAL TREASURER AND COUNTERSIGNED BY THE PROVINCIAL AUDITOR AND SEALED WITH THE OFFICIAL SEAL OF THE MOUNTAIN PROVINCE MOUNTAIN PROVINCE EMERGENCY NOTE TWENTY CENTAVOS P.20 |
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| Protection description | Embossed official seal of the Mountain Province struck on both obverse and reverse as an authenticating device |
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| Comments |
The Mountain Province emergency scrip series of 1942 was produced under Japanese occupation conditions, when the Philippine Commonwealth's regular banking system had collapsed and local governments were scrambling to keep small-denomination exchange functioning. The Provincial Board issues were authorized by whatever civil authority remained intact in the Cordillera highlands — a region that saw prolonged guerrilla resistance and significant disruption to normal commerce throughout the occupation period.
The embossed seal was the primary anti-counterfeiting measure, which tells you how limited the production resources were. Paper, a hand press, and an official seal were essentially the entire security apparatus.