250 Patacas Year of the Rooster

Macau's lunar gold series was produced under the administration of Portugal, which retained sovereignty over the territory until the 1999 handover to China. The 1993 rooster issue was struck at the Lisbon Mint, part of a consistent run of 22-karat lunar pieces that the territory issued annually through the final decade of Portuguese governance — a commercial program as much as a numismatic one, aimed squarely at the regional collector market in Hong Kong and mainland China.