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1 Pataca Banco Nacional Ultramarino
| Issuer | Banco Nacional Ultramarino |
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| Year | 1945 |
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| Currency | Pataca (1894-date) |
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| Obverse lettering | BANCO NACIONAL ULTRAMARINO 行銀理滙外海國洋西大 LISBOA, 16 de Novembro de 1945. 圓壹 DECRETO № 17154 UMA PATACA O ADMINISTRADOR | O PRESIDENTE DE CONSELHO ADMINISTRATIVO 門澳 MACAU 門澳 |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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The Banco Nacional Ultramarino, a Lisbon-based institution chartered in 1864 to manage Portuguese colonial currency, issued this wartime 1 Pataca as part of a broader effort to stabilize Macau's monetary supply during the Japanese occupation of surrounding territories. Macau itself remained technically neutral — a peculiar anomaly of Portuguese non-belligerence — and continued operating as a functioning enclave while Hong Kong was under Japanese control, which made its currency unusually significant for cross-border transactions.
Waterlow & Sons produced the plates in London under wartime conditions, though physical delivery logistics for colonial issues of this period were frequently disrupted.