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100 Patacas Year of the Rooster
| Issuer | Macau |
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| Year | 1993 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Obverse lettering | MACAU 1993 |
| Reverse description | A finely detailed standing rooster, symbol of the Chinese Zodiac Year of the Rooster, occupies the central field, depicted in left profile with elaborate feather engraving conveying texture and movement. To the left of the rooster, two Chinese characters 壹佰 (meaning 'one hundred') are inscribed in a vertical arrangement, and to the right the characters 澳門 (Macau) appear likewise vertically. The denomination 100 PATACAS is inscribed in Latin characters along the lower exergue. |
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Macau's lunar series patacas were issued under the authority of the Banco Nacional Ultramarino, a Portuguese colonial institution that had held note-issuing rights in Macau since 1902. By 1993, with the handover to China already negotiated and scheduled for 1999, these collector issues carried an implicit finality — the colonial monetary authority knew its days were numbered. The BNU was eventually replaced by the Banco da China and Banco Multibanco in 1995 for note issuance, making the early 1990s lunar pieces among the last struck under unambiguous Portuguese financial administration.