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5 Patacas Banco Nacional Ultramarino
| Issuer | Banco Nacional Ultramarino |
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| Year | 1924 |
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| Size | 185 × 117 mm |
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| Obverse description | Printed in green, the face centres on a sunburst vignette flanked by the Portuguese royal arms, with an ocean liner vignette at lower left and a sailing junk at lower right, all contained within an elaborate guilloche border incorporating Chinese numeral corner cartouches. The issuer name BANCO NACIONAL ULTRAMARINO and FILIAL DE MACAU arch across the upper field, while the denomination CINCO PATACAS occupies a central banner across the middle register. The date and payment clause PAGAVEIS EM MACAU EM MOEDA CORRENTE LISBOA 1 de Janeiro de 1924 appear in the lower central field above two manuscript signature lines. |
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| Reverse lettering | CINCO PATACAS 圓伍 BANCO NACIONAL ULTRAMARINO MACAU 伍 |
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Banco Nacional Ultramarino held the note-issuing concession for Portuguese Macau through much of the twentieth century, a privilege originally granted in 1902. By 1924, the pataca had been formally pegged to the Hong Kong dollar at par, a relationship that would later drift and eventually be codified differently — but at the moment this note was printed, the two currencies were effectively interchangeable across the Pearl River Delta trading world.
Thomas De La Rue produced the plates in London for a territory they had never set foot in, a common enough arrangement for colonial currency printing of the period. Pick 8 is among the earlier surviving Macau issues and turns up rarely in any grade.