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Vertically oriented note with a blue guilloche border enclosing a central panel of light underprint. Chinese characters in large intaglio script read the bank name (富衡門澳) and denomination (廣東雙毫銀拾員正) in vertical columns, with a date inscription (丁五年六月初一日) at lower left. A Portuguese colonial fiscal stamp (Estampilha Fiscal Colonial, 5 avos) is affixed at the top, and multiple red seal impressions appear in the margins alongside vertical column text on the left side. |
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Printed in a monochromatic rose-red tone, the reverse carries a central vignette of the Foo Hang Bank building in Macao set within a circular frame, surrounded by a floral guilloche border. An arched legend reads 澳門富衡銀號 above and FOO HANG BANK MACAO below the vignette, with the numeral 10 at the base. To the right of the central design, vertical Chinese inscriptions reading 字第 and 號勸合 indicate serial notation fields. |
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Foo Hang Bank was one of several small private banks operating in Macao during the 1930s, issuing notes that circulated locally alongside Portuguese patacas and notes from larger institutions. The 1937 date places this squarely in the year the Second Sino-Japanese War erupted on the mainland — a conflict that made Macao, as a neutral Portuguese territory, an increasingly unusual financial island surrounded by chaos.
Local printing in Macao for private bank issues of this period was common but produced notes of notoriously variable quality. Paper stocks and inks were often sourced under difficult conditions, and many examples show uneven impression as a result.