Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
100 Patacas Year of the Tiger
| Issuer | Monetary Authority of Macao |
|---|---|
| Year | 2010 |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Pataca (1894-date) |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Weight | Log in to see details |
| Diameter | Log in to see details |
| Thickness | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Technique | Log in to see details |
| Orientation | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Central field features a stylized tiger rendered in low relief, depicted in profile with its head turned forward, occupying the left half of the coin. The right half bears a vivid polychrome enamel panel depicting flowering foliage and tree branches in red, green, and orange on a red ground, in a traditional Chinese decorative style. The denomination '100 圓 PATACAS' and the cyclical year inscription '庚寅年' appear in the lower left field, with the date '2010' below. The legend 'MACAU, CHINA' is inscribed along the lower rim, and the Chinese characters '中國澳門' appear along the upper rim. |
|---|---|
| Obverse script | Log in to see details |
| Obverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Reverse description | Log in to see details |
| Reverse script | Chinese (traditional, regular script), Latin |
| Reverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Edge | Log in to see details |
| Mint | Log in to see details |
| Mintage | Log in to see details |
| Additional information |
The 2010 Tiger year fell under the Chinese sexagenary cycle designation of Geng Yin — the Year of the Metal Tiger, occurring only once every sixty years. Macao's Monetary Authority has issued lunar series coinage since the 1980s, but the large-format silver pieces occupy a distinct tier of the program, struck in limited quantities for the collector market rather than any pretense of circulation. The territory's post-handover status under "one country, two systems" allows it to maintain an independent currency and issuing authority separate from the People's Republic.