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20 Patacas Return of Macau to China
| Issuer | Monetary Authority of Macao |
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| Year | 2009 |
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| Orientation | Coin alignment ↑↓ |
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| Obverse script | Chinese (traditional, regular script), Latin |
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| Reverse description | Central motif of a blooming lotus flower in full color, rendered in yellow and red enamel tones, rising from a stylized stem tied with a decorative knot, flanked by large unfurling lotus leaves in high relief against a polished field. The bilingual commemorative legend arcs around the upper portion of the coin, reading in Chinese along the left and in Portuguese along the right. The date range '1999-2009' appears in the lower exergue, commemorating the tenth anniversary of the handover of Macau to China. |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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