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1000 Patacas Year of the Rabbit
| Issuer | Macau |
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| Year | 1987 |
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| Diameter | 28 mm |
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| Reverse description | Two rabbits rendered in fine relief are depicted crouching within a circular incuse field at the centre of the coin, evoking the Chinese Lunar Year of the Rabbit. The denomination '1000' arches across the upper legend, with 'PATACAS' along the lower legend. Chinese characters for the denomination (壹仟) appear to the left and the Chinese name for Macau (澳門) to the right, each flanked by a small five-pointed star. |
| Reverse script | Latin/Chinese |
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Macau's rabbit-year gold issues from this period were produced under the Sociedade de Turismo e Diversões de Macao (STDM), Stanley Ho's gaming monopoly, which effectively controlled the territory's commemorative coin program through the 1980s. The arrangement was unusual — a private conglomerate rather than a government treasury driving bullion coin production. Mintages were kept deliberately tight to sustain collector premiums in the Hong Kong and Southeast Asian markets, where Lunar New Year gold carried strong gift-giving demand.
KM#37 is the higher-denomination of the two rabbit issues that year, the companion 500 Patacas struck in the same alloy at roughly half the weight.