 Such was the state of the coinage for the Philippines when the United States decided to establish a branch mint in the Philippines to take over the role then occupied by the San Francisco mint.In 1920, the Manila Mint was reopened under United States auspices, and was the first (and to date only) U.S. branch mint located outside the Continental United States.It produced coins until 1922 and then again from 1925 to 1941, when the Japanese Empire invaded the Philippines during World War II.