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1000 Patacas Banco da China
| Issuer | Banco da China (Bank of China), Macau Branch |
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| Year | 1995-1999 |
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| Reference(s) | P#95 |
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| Obverse lettering | 中國銀行 BANCO DA CHINA 根據 一月十八日第 8/95/M 號法令 DIRECTO – LEI № 8/95/M, DE 30 DE JANEIRO 澳門幣 壹仟圓 MIL PATACAS 澳門分行總經理 DIRECTOR - GERAL DA SUCURSAL DE MACAU 一九九五年十月十六日 澳 門 MACAU, 16 DE OUTUBRO DE 1995 (Translation: Bank of China According to Decree No. 8/95/M of January 30 Macanese currency One Thousand Patacas Macau Branch General Manager 1995 October 16 Macau) |
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| Reverse lettering | 中國銀行 BANCO DA CHINA 澳門幣壹仟圓 (Translation: Bank of China One Thousand Macanese Patacas) |
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Banco da China did not issue notes in Macau until 1995, when a second bank of issue was licensed alongside the long-established Banco Nacional Ultramarino. The arrangement was politically deliberate — with the 1999 handover to China approaching, Beijing wanted its own institution present in the territory's currency framework before the transfer. The high denomination made the Bank of China's entry into the market immediately visible.
Pick 95 belongs to the series that ran through the handover itself, remaining valid under the Macau Special Administrative Region. Notes from the late issues in this run occasionally show slightly heavier ink saturation on the serial numbering — a minor production variation, not an error type.