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1000 Patacas Banco da China
| Issuer | Banco da China (Bank of China), Macau Branch |
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| Year | 2003 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | The right portion of the obverse carries a vignette of the Praia Oeste (West Bay) waterfront, rendered in warm orange and ochre tones, showing the coastal cityscape of residential and commercial buildings set against a hillside. To the left, the denomination numeral '1000' and Chinese characters 壹仟圓 are printed in red intaglio over a guilloche underprint, flanked by the issuing bank's seal. Issuer name in Chinese and Portuguese, administrative decree reference, and the date of issue are inscribed across the upper and lower registers. |
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| Obverse lettering | 中國銀行 BANCO DA CHINA 根據第30/2003號行政法規 REGULAMENTO ADMINISTRAVO № 30/2003 澳門幣 壹仟圓 MIL PATACAS 澳門分行總經理 DIRECTOR–GERAL DA SUCURSAL DE MACAU 二零零三年十二月八日 澳 門 MACAU, 8 DE DEZEMBRO DE 2003 (Translation: Bank of China By administrative decree No. 30/2003 Macanese currency One Thousand Patacas Macau Branch General Manager 2003 December 8 Macau) |
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Banco da China — the Macau branch of the People's Republic of China's state bank — gained the right to issue patacas only in 1995, joining Banco Nacional Ultramarino as a co-issuing authority under an arrangement formalized ahead of the 1999 handover from Portugal. This 2003 series was among the first full replacement issues printed after the transition, when BNU's role began its managed decline.
At the 1000 pataca denomination, Bank of China notes circulated primarily in commercial and casino settlement — street-level transactions in Macau rarely reached this value outside gaming venues. China Banknote Printing and Minting Corporation handled the work entirely domestically, a deliberate shift from earlier colonial-era reliance on European security printers.