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1000 Patacas Year of the Tiger
| Issuer | Monetary Authority of Macao |
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| Year | 1998 |
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| Weight | 16 g |
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| Obverse lettering | MACAU 1998 |
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| Reverse script | Chinese, Latin |
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Macao's lunar gold series occupied an awkward political moment: the 1998 Tiger issue was struck just eighteen months before the territory's handover from Portuguese administration to China in December 1999. The Monetary Authority was still operating under Portuguese oversight, yet already navigating the transition to the future Macau Special Administrative Region. These late-series issues saw conservative mintages as uncertainty over the handover dampened institutional confidence in long-term collector programs.
The Gomes reference remains the authoritative catalog for Macanese numismatics, and the R 103.1 designation confirms this as the principal bullion-weight issue rather than a proof or presentation variant.