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1000 Patacas Year of the Snake

Issuer Macau
Year 1989
Type Non-circulating coin
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Obverse script Latin
Obverse lettering MACAU 1989
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Issued by the Banco Nacional Ultramarino under Portuguese administration, this piece belongs to the lunar series Macau began producing in the early 1980s as the territory's gaming revenue made high-denomination gold issues commercially viable. The Snake year falls among the quieter sellers of the twelve-animal cycle, which tends to keep secondary-market premiums modest relative to the Dragon issues from the same series.

KM#45 was struck at the British Royal Mint on contract — Macau operated no mint of its own.

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