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100 Patacas Banco da China
| Issuer | Banco da China (Bank of China), Macau Branch |
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| Year | 1995-1999 |
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| Reference(s) | P#93 |
| Obverse description | A vignette at right illustrates the Outer Harbour Ferry Terminal of Macau, rendered in fine intaglio engraving with vessels visible in the foreground waterway and the city skyline beyond. The large Chinese characters 壹佰圓 and the bilingual denomination CEM PATACAS appear centrally, set against a light guilloche underprint in teal and rose tones. The issuer's name BANCO DA CHINA and 中國銀行 are printed across the upper portion, with the issue date and authorising decree references inscribed in both Portuguese and Chinese below. |
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| Reverse lettering | 中國銀行 BANCO DA CHINA 100 澳門幣壹佰圓 |
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Bank of China began issuing notes in Macau in 1995, joining Banco Nacional Ultramarino as a note-issuing authority — an arrangement that reflected Beijing's growing influence over the territory ahead of the 1999 handover to China. The dual-issuer system was unusual globally and was a deliberate political construction, not a banking necessity.
The Pick 93 series ran through 1999, the year of handover, after which BOC Macau continued issuing under the new SAR framework. Notes from the final 1999 date within this series are modestly harder to find in unhandled condition than the mid-series dates.