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100 Patacas
| Issuer | Banco da China |
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| Year | 2020 |
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| Printer | China Banknote Printing and Minting Corporation |
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| Obverse lettering | 中國銀行 BANCO DA CHINA 100 CEM PATACAS 澳門元壹佰圓 |
| Reverse description | The reverse is centred on an intaglio vignette of Lou Kau Mansion (盧家大屋), the historic Macanese colonial-era residence rendered in fine line work against a pale blue guilloche background. The denomination numeral '100' appears in large figures at upper left, flanked by the bilingual legend 澳門元 / PATACAS and the issuing authority inscriptions in Chinese and Portuguese running vertically at left, including the regulatory reference NOS TERMOS DO REGULAMENTO ADMINISTRATIVO N.º17/2020. The Bank of China logo and bilingual title are repeated at upper right, with a latent image security element at lower right. |
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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.