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5 Patacas
| Issuer | Banco Nacional Ultramarino |
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| Year | 1944 |
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| Value | 5 Patacas |
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| Obverse lettering | BANCO NACIONAL ULTRAMARINO DECRETO Nº 33:517 MACAU REPRESENTA ESTE O VALOR DE CINCO PATACAS EM MOEDA CORRENTE Lisboa 5 de Fevereiro de 1944 O GERENTE DIRECTOR DE FAZENDA 5 |
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| Reverse lettering | 澳門 大西洋國外海通理銀行 戒思總管任內頂 前幣伍圓票 伍 印澳祐帶有限印造之印廠 |
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Banco Nacional Ultramarino issued notes for Macau throughout the Portuguese colonial period, but wartime printing circumstances forced an unusual local solution. The Litografia Sol Chon & Cia. imprint marks this as one of the few Macau notes actually produced in the territory itself — a direct consequence of wartime disruption to the established European printing supply chain, which had previously supplied the colony's currency from Lisbon or London.
Locally printed colonial notes of this period are prone to uneven ink distribution and inconsistent registration, and the Sol Chon issues are no exception. Paper quality also varies noticeably between surviving examples.