Catalog
20 Pesos Red 20
| Issuer | Province of Palawan |
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| Year | 1945 |
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| Currency | Peso (1941-1945) |
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| Obverse lettering | CIRCULATING PAPER BILL / No. 678 / Jan. 8, 1945 / Authorized Letter P.T. Oct. 23, 1944 / PESOS / THE PROVINCE OF PALAWAN WILL PAY THE BEARER ON DEMAND / TWENTY PESOS / In lawful Currency of the Philippines / M. RODRIGUEZ J. of the Peace / E.A. VILLAPA Mun. Dist. Treas. / PAULINO APOSTOL Member |
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| Signature(s) | M. Rodriguez and E.A. Villapa and Paulino Apostol |
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Philippine guerrilla currency is a crowded field, but Palawan's emergency issues occupy a peculiar corner of it. The island was among the last major Philippine territories to see sustained Japanese occupation, and its provincial government maintained enough administrative continuity to issue currency with genuine bureaucratic formality — three signatures, a full provincial authority designation, and series controls that suggest real accounting behind the printing.
The "Red 20" designation distinguishes this from other 20 Peso Palawan emissions by overprint color, a quick and cheap method of differentiating authorized reissues or series without committing to a full reprinting run.