1000 Patacas Year of the Ox

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.