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100 Patacas Visita do Presidente Eanes
| Issuer | Monetary Authority of Macau |
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| Year | 1985 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin/Chinese |
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| Reverse description | A bold left-facing portrait bust of Portuguese President António Ramalho Eanes dominates the central field, rendered in high relief with a stylized, angular artistic treatment. The president is depicted wearing glasses and a suit with a tie. The curved legend VISITA A MACAU DO PRESIDENTE EANES runs along the upper periphery in Latin script. Below the portrait, a Chinese inscription and the date 1985 are engraved across the lower field. |
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António Ramalho Eanes visited Macau in 1985 as part of a broader diplomatic effort to manage the territory's political future — Portugal and China had opened formal negotiations over the handover the previous year, and the visit carried obvious symbolic weight for a population watching the 1997 deadline take shape. This coin was struck to mark that visit.
KM#33 shares its specification with the Commonwealth "crown" format widely adopted for commemorative issues in the 1980s, a deliberate choice that placed Macau's output on equal footing with better-known issuing authorities during that period.