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1000 Patacas Banco da China
| Issuer | Banco da China (Macau) |
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| Year | 2020 |
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| Printer | China Banknote Printing and Minting Corporation |
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| Obverse description | At left, a stylized lotus flower vignette is set above façade renderings of historic buildings. The central motif presents a lion dance costume in vivid detail, with the Bank of China (Macau) tower rising in the background. Denomination numerals and bilingual bank title inscriptions frame the composition, with guilloche underprint patterns across the field. |
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| Obverse lettering | 1000 MIL PATACAS 中國銀行 BANCO DA CHINA 1000 澳門元壹仟圓 (Translation: Bank of China One Thousand Patacas One Thousand Macanese Patacas) |
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Banco da China has operated as one of Macau's three note-issuing banks since 1995, a direct consequence of Beijing's gradual tightening of influence over the territory's financial architecture ahead of the 1999 handover. The 1000 Pataca denomination sits at the top of the circulating series and sees comparatively limited everyday use — high-value notes in Macau function largely as store-of-value instruments given the territory's heavy reliance on casino chips and electronic settlement for large transactions.
Paper substrate at this denomination is notable; by 2020 most major issuing authorities had migrated their highest denominations to polymer. CBPMC retained conventional paper here, with security relying on thread and watermark rather than the substrate itself.