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20 Pesos Blue 20
| Issuer | Province of Palawan |
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| Year | 1944 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse lettering | CIRCULATING PAPER BILL No. 602 Sept. 22 1944 Authorized Letter P.T. June 28 20 PESOS THE PROVINCE OF PALAWAN WILL PAY THE BEARER ON DEMAND TWENTY PESOS in lawful currency of the Philippines J. of the Peace Mun. Dist. Treas. Member |
| Reverse description | The reverse is dominated by a large blue '₱20' value numeral occupying most of the field, with 'XX' countermarks at upper right and lower left corners. A circular official handstamp of the Province of Palawan reading 'RECEIVED' is applied at center right, accompanied by a manuscript signature above the legend 'Municipal District Treasurer'. |
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Philippine provincial emergency currency issued under Japanese occupation is well-documented, but Palawan sits at the edge of that story in a specific way. The island's geographic isolation — and its early liberation by Allied forces in early 1945 — meant that emergency notes issued there had an unusually short window of actual use. Many Palawan guerrilla and provincial issues circulated for only months before being retired.
The S945 designation places this within the Philippine Commonwealth emergency series catalogued under Mindanao and other southern issues. Palawan provincial notes from 1944 are among the scarcer regional pieces, not because they were carefully preserved but because production runs were necessarily limited by available materials under wartime conditions.