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10 Avos
| Issuer | Macau |
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| Year | 1982-1988 |
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| Weight | 3.3 g |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | The reverse features a large stylized rendering of the Chinese character 福 (Fu, meaning 'blessing' or 'good fortune'), rendered in a bold, architectural block-letter style and enclosed within a vertical rectangular outline that dominates the central field. The denomination 10 AVOS appears at the top in Latin script, immediately below which the Chinese equivalent 壹毫 (one dime) is inscribed. The issuer name in Chinese, 澳門 (Macau), appears in the lower field beneath the central device. |
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Macau's brass coinage of the 1980s was produced under Portuguese administration in the final stretch before the 1987 Sino-Portuguese Joint Declaration, which formally scheduled the handover to China for 1999. The avos denominations saw relatively heavy use in the territory's casino-driven cash economy, where small-denomination coins cycled through at unusual velocity compared to neighboring Hong Kong.
The KM#20 series ran through 1988, just as transitional monetary planning began in earnest.