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250 Patacas Year of the Monkey
| Issuer | Monetary Authority of Macao |
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| Year | 1992 |
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| Currency | Pataca (1894-date) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Macao's lunar gold series was produced under a licensing arrangement that allowed the Monetary Authority to issue collector coinage well before the 1999 handover to China — a period when the territory was actively cultivating numismatic revenue as part of its broader fiscal strategy under Portuguese administration. The 1992 Monkey issue corresponds to the year geng-shen in the sexagenary cycle, specifically the Water Monkey, which recurs only once every sixty years.
KM#53 was struck in limited quantities and primarily absorbed by Asian collector markets where lunar series carry strong cultural demand.