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50 Avos

Emittent Banco Nacional Ultramarino
Jahr 1942
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Währung Pataca (1894-date)
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Vorderseitenbeschreibung Printed in purple and green, the obverse carries the Portuguese royal arms as a central vignette, flanked by Chinese characters denoting the denomination at each corner. The issuer's name BANCO NACIONAL ULTRAMARINO appears in a curved banner across the upper portion, with CINCOENTA AVOS and MACAU inscribed in the central panel below the arms. Serial numbers are printed in two positions along the upper field, and a manuscript signature of the Gerente appears in the lower right quadrant.
Vorderseitenlegende BANCO NACIONAL ULTRAMARINO
CINCOENTA AVOS
MAC�AU
GERENTE
伍毫
50
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Anmerkungen

The Banco Nacional Ultramarino's wartime Macau issues occupy an odd corner of colonial monetary history. By 1942, Hong Kong was under Japanese occupation, yet this note was printed there — almost certainly completed before the December 1941 fall of the colony, with the notes subsequently held or transferred to Macau for release during the occupation period.

Macau itself remained nominally Portuguese and neutral throughout the Pacific War, a precarious status that kept it functioning as a financial outlier while every neighboring territory was absorbed into the Japanese sphere. The 50 Avos was a low-denomination workhorse in that environment.