Catalog
10 Patacas Banco da China
| Issuer | Banco da China (Bank of China), Macau Branch |
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| Year | 2020 |
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| Size | 139 × 69 mm |
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| Obverse description | A central vignette presents a performer in traditional dragon costume set against the Banco da China headquarters building in Macau; historic low-rise façades occupy the lower left, while a stylised lotus flower motif rendered in the underprint fills the left background. Denomination numerals and bilingual issuer inscriptions in Chinese and Portuguese frame the composition at the borders. |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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Banco da China has been one of Macau's three note-issuing banks since 1995, when the territory's currency law was revised to add it alongside Banco Nacional Ultramarino and, later, Banco Weng Hang. The 2020 series continued an arrangement that is genuinely unusual by any global standard: three separate commercial banks simultaneously issuing legal tender in the same small jurisdiction, each responsible for their own print runs, all denominated in the same Pataca.
The watermark remains the primary security feature — a notably lean specification for a 2020-dated issue from a major state printer.