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10 Patacas Year of the Monkey, Banco Nacional Ultramarino
| Issuer | Banco Nacional Ultramarino |
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| Year | 2016 |
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| Reference(s) | P#88A |
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| Reverse description | The Macau headquarters building of Banco Nacional Ultramarino is illustrated at the left, rendered as an architectural vignette. A stylized monkey motif appears at the right, echoing the commemorative Lunar New Year theme. Bilingual inscriptions in Chinese and Portuguese identify the issuing bank and denomination. |
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| Protection description | Lotus flower watermark |
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The Banco Nacional Ultramarino was the note-issuing authority for Macau from 1902 until that function transferred to the Autoridade Monetária de Macau in 2010 — yet the BNU name has continued on commemorative and collector issues well past that transition. This 2016 lunar new year piece is one of those post-transition releases, issued under the BNU brand while carrying no actual monetary utility as a circulating instrument.
The printed date of 30 April 1945 requires explanation: it refers to a date embedded in the underlying plate design, not the actual issue date of this note — a deliberate historical reference to an earlier BNU Macau series rather than an error or misattribution.