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5 Pesos
| Issuer | Province of Palawan, Brooke's Point |
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| Year | 1943 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Plain letterpress note with large numeral '5' vignettes at left and right flanking a central text block that carries the denomination 'FIVE PESOS', the authorization date of 6 November 1943, the issue date of 27 May 1944, a serial number, and the legend 'A Legal Currency of the Philippines' together with a promise-to-pay clause in the name of the Province of Palawan. Three manuscript signatures appear across the lower portion, each accompanied by a printed title designation. |
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| Reverse lettering | P5 V BROOKE'S POINT, PALAWAN F.A. Millard Municipal Treasurer |
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| Comments |
Palawan's wartime emergency currency was among the most geographically isolated of all Philippine provincial issues. Brooke's Point — a remote settlement on Palawan's southern coast — served as a guerrilla administrative center after Japanese forces occupied the provincial capital of Puerto Princesa in 1942. Notes were produced there under the authority of the provincial government-in-exile, using whatever materials were locally available, which is why paper quality, ink, and typeface vary considerably across surviving examples.
The Japanese military administration never fully controlled Palawan's interior, giving this currency a genuine, if limited, circulation life among civilians and resistance fighters throughout 1943.