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100 Patacas
| Issuer | Banco da China |
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| Year | 2020 |
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| Value | 100 Patacas |
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| Obverse lettering | 中國銀行 BANCO DA CHINA 100 CEM PATACAS 澳門元壹佰圓 |
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| Protection description | Windowed security thread with demetallised pattern embedded vertically near left of centre; lotus flower and denomination numeral visible when held to light; latent image element at lower right of reverse showing denomination numerals at different viewing angles; color-shifting ink applied to denomination numeral. |
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Banco da China's entry into Macau's banknote-issuing rotation is itself a political story. The bank was granted note-issuing authority in 1995, making it the third institution authorized to circulate patacas alongside Banco Nacional Ultramarino and Banco Weng Hang — a deliberate move by Beijing to establish a Chinese state-owned presence in the territory's currency supply well before the 1999 handover.
By 2020, all three issuers were printing through China Banknote Printing and Minting Corporation, which consolidated production from the foreign printers previously used for some series.