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100 Patacas Year of the Dragon
| Issuer | Macau Monetary Authority |
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| Year | 2000 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse description | Central depiction of the ornate Baroque facade of the Ruins of St. Paul's Church (São Paulo), rendered in fine detail showing its multi-tiered stone frontispiece with columns, statues, and decorative reliefs. The legend 'MACAU' arcs along the upper periphery in large Latin letters, flanked on either side by a semicircle of five-pointed stars. The date '2000' appears in the lower field beneath the structure, with the coin's inner border defined by a toothed ring of beads. |
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| Obverse lettering | MACAU 2000 |
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Issued by the Macao Monetary Authority in the final year before the handover's administrative adjustments fully took hold, this coin occupies an odd transitional moment — Portugal had returned Macau to Chinese sovereignty in December 1999, making this 2000 issue one of the first struck under the new political arrangement while retaining the issuing authority's established identity. The dragon cycle itself carries particular weight here: the Year of the Dragon is traditionally considered the most auspicious in the twelve-year cycle, and the 2000 edition coincided with both the new millennium and the first dragon year under Chinese administration.