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250 Patacas Year of the Rat
| Issuer | Monetary Authority of Macao |
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| Year | 2008 |
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| Composition | Gold (.999) |
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| Obverse description | Central design features a stylized rat in relief against a vertically divided field: the left half is plain gold and the right half is colorfully enameled with pink peony blossoms and green foliage on a red ground. The denomination '250圓 / PATACAS' appears to the lower left of the rat, with the date '戊子年 / 2008' below. The legend '中國澳門' is inscribed along the upper arc, with 'MACAU, CHINA' along the lower periphery. |
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| Obverse lettering | 澳門 中國 250 圓 250 PATACAS 2008 MACAU, CHINA |
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Issued under Macao's twelve-year lunar cycle commemorative program, the 2008 rat year coin falls at the opening of a Chinese zodiac series that the Monetary Authority had been producing since the mid-1990s. The rat holds the first position in the traditional cycle — a detail that gave this particular release mild ceremonial emphasis in the Chinese-speaking collector market, especially given the convergence with the Beijing Olympic year.