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100 Patacas Year of the Snake
| Issuer | Autoridade Monetária de Macau |
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| Year | 2013 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse description | The obverse features a bold, stylized black silhouette of a coiled snake set against a vivid two-tone background — a deep black left field and a colorful right field depicting flowering foliage rendered in pink, yellow, and green enamel coloring. The snake motif commemorates the Chinese Lunar New Year of the Snake (癸巳年). To the upper left, the issuer's name in Chinese characters reads 中國澳門, while the denomination 100圓 and PATACAS appear in the lower left field, with the cyclical year inscription 癸巳年 and date 2013 positioned below. The legend MACAU, CHINA is inscribed along the lower rim. |
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| Reverse lettering | RUINS OF ST. PAUL'S 大三巴牌坊 RUÍNAS DE SÃO PAULO |
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Macau's lunar series patacas are struck under the Autoridade Monetária de Macau, which assumed monetary authority from the Banco Nacional Ultramarino following the 1999 handover to China. The 155-gram format places this squarely in the five-troy-ounce category, a size that became the de facto standard for prestige lunar issues across Asian mints in the early 2000s as collector demand for large-format silver surged in mainland China.
The Snake is the sixth animal in the twelve-year cycle. 2013 was also the first full lunar year following Xi Jinping's appointment as General Secretary of the Communist Party — a political transition that briefly complicated ceremonial coin distribution channels between Macau and the mainland.