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5 Patacas
| Issuer | Banco Nacional Ultramarino |
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| Year | 1944 |
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| Currency | Pataca (1894-date) |
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| Obverse description | Printed in blue and red on white paper, the obverse carries the bank title 'BANCO NACIONAL ULTRAMARINO' in an upper border panel flanked by the numeral '5' on each side. A central red guilloche vignette bears the overprint 'MACAU' and the text 'REPRESENTA ESTE O VALOR DE CINCO PATACAS EM MOEDA CORRENTE', with the date 'Lisboa 5 de Fevereiro de 1944' below. The Portuguese royal arms appear at left, a circular bank seal with a steamship vignette at right, and two serial number panels reading 'Nº' flank the central design, with signature lines for 'O GERENTE' and 'DIRECTOR DE FAZENDA' at bottom. |
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| Reverse description | Printed entirely in green on plain paper, the reverse presents a vertical format with Chinese text arranged in traditional top-to-bottom columns at the upper portion, including the bank name and Macau designation. A Portuguese crowned arms vignette sits centrally above an elaborate foliate guilloche medallion bearing the denomination in Chinese characters. The numeral '伍' appears in the upper corners, and a printer's imprint in Chinese characters runs along the lower margin. |
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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.