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100 Patacas Year of the Dragon
| Issuer | Macau |
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| Year | 1988 |
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| Value | 100 Patacas |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | The reverse presents a finely detailed Chinese dragon rendered in high relief, depicted in sinuous profile traversing the central field amid stylized clouds. The numeral 100 appears at the upper field flanked by two small five-pointed stars. The denomination PATACAS is inscribed in large Latin letters along the lower field. Chinese characters reading 壹百澳門 (One Hundred Macau) are positioned vertically on either side of the dragon, to the left and right respectively. A toothed border frames the entire composition. |
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Macau issued this piece through the Imprensa Nacional–Casa da Moeda of Portugal, reflecting the territory's administrative status in 1988 — still under Portuguese governance a full decade before the 1999 handover to the PRC. The Dragon year issues from this period were aimed squarely at the collector and casino-adjacent souvenir market that made Macau's economy function.
KM#38 shares its planchet specification with a raft of Commonwealth commemoratives of the same period, the 28.28g/.925 standard having been effectively globalized by the Royal Mint's influence on colonial and semi-colonial minting contracts through the 1970s and 80s.