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10 Patacas Year of the Ox, Banco da China
| Issuer | Banco da China (Bank of China Macau Branch) |
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| Year | 2021 |
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| Currency | Pataca (1894-date) |
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| Obverse description | A stylized ox vignette occupies the left field, rendered in bold decorative linework evoking traditional Chinese artistic styles. A large auspicious blessing character (福) appears at upper right, while the background carries an intricate underprint of Chinese lanterns and a Zodiac wheel. The overall palette draws on festive reds and golds befitting a Lunar New Year commemorative issue. |
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| Reverse description | The Bank of China (Macau) headquarters building is set to the left in precise architectural vignette, with a stylized ox motif to the right. The background carries a lively scene of children with firecrackers at the forecourt of the A-Ma Temple, rendered in decorative guilloche-style underprint integrating traditional Macanese cultural imagery. |
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Bank of China's Macau branch issues commemorative notes for the lunar new year cycle, and this 2021 Ox series piece is one of them — printed at Beijing Banknote Printing House rather than the Portuguese-era presses that dominated Macanese currency history for over a century. The 10 Pataca denomination keeps it nominally transactional but practically a collector's item from the outset; almost none of these enter genuine commerce.
Pick 124 sits in a crowded sequence of near-identical zodiac releases, distinguished only by year and animal. Condition issues are rare given the handling these almost never receive.