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10 Patacas Year of the Monkey, Banco da China
| Issuer | Banco da China (Bank of China), Macau Branch |
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| Year | 2016 |
| Type | Commemorative banknote |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette of a stylized monkey rendered in traditional Chinese paper-cut art style, set against a decorative floral and fruiting branch underprint in warm gold and red tones. A Chinese Zodiac wheel occupies the background, with an auspicious blessing character at upper right. The denomination numeral '10' appears at lower right, with bilingual issuer inscriptions in Chinese and Portuguese running along the upper margin. |
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| Reverse description | At left, a vignette of the Bank of China (Macau) headquarters tower rises against a background of traditional Macanese architectural elements and festive monkey figures rendered in a folk-art style, all within a warm red and peach tonal scheme. The denomination numeral '10' is positioned at far left, with the issuer name in Chinese and Portuguese across the upper field. Guilloche patterning frames the central design area. |
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Banco da China became one of Macau's three note-issuing banks in 1995, joining Banco Nacional Ultramarino and the Tai Fung Bank — an arrangement that reflects the territory's unusual tripartite issuing structure, which survived the 1999 handover to China intact. The lunar new year commemorative series, of which this is part, targets the collector market almost exclusively; actual circulation of these issues is negligible.
The "Printed: 30.04.1945" field in the source data is clearly erroneous and should be disregarded.