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1000 Patacas Year of the Ox
| Issuer | Macau |
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| Year | 1985 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse description | Central field features the crowned arms of Macau, a Portuguese-style shield flanked by two standing angels as supporters, each holding a sphere. The legend MACAU arcs across the upper field in bold Latin letters, with the date 1985 divided by the base of the arms and displayed in the lower field. A ring of small stars encircles the central device, and the rim is finely reeded. |
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| Reverse lettering | 1000 PATACAS 壹仟 澳門 |
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Macau's gold lunar issues of the 1980s were produced under Portuguese administration, just over a decade before the 1999 handover to China. The 1985 Ox issue was struck by the Imprensa Nacional–Casa da Moeda in Lisbon, not locally — Macau had no mint of its own. Mintages for the series were deliberately constrained to sustain collector demand in the growing Asian numismatic market, where Lunar New Year gold was attracting serious investment interest from Hong Kong buyers in particular.