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50 Patacas Banco da China
| Issuer | Banco da China (Bank of China), Macau Branch |
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| Year | 2020 |
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| Value | 50 Patacas |
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| Reverse description | Central intaglio vignette of the Kiang Wu History Museum (鏡湖歷史紀念館), rendered in fine detail with its distinctive circular tiered roof in traditional Chinese architectural style, flanked by ornamental trees. A large watermark window occupies the right side, with an optically variable ink numeral "50" at lower right. The Bank of China circular logo and bilingual bank title appear at upper right, with the denomination and legal authority text in Chinese and Portuguese at left. |
| Reverse lettering | 中國銀行 BANCO DA CHINA 50 澳門元 PATACAS 二零二零年五月十八日 澳門 MACAU, 18 DE MAIO DE 2020 根據第17/2020號行政法規 NOS TERMOS DO REGULAMENTO ADMINISTRATIVO Nº 17/2020 澳門分行行長 DIRECTOR-GERAL DA SUCURSAL DE MACAU (Translation: Bank of China 50 Macanese Patacas, Macau, 18 May 2020, Pursuant to Administrative Regulation No. 17/2020, Director-General of the Macau Branch) |
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Banco da China became the third note-issuing bank in Macau in 1995, joining Banco Nacional Ultramarino and Banco Tai Fung — an unusual arrangement that persists today, producing a circulating currency where the same denomination exists in three visually distinct versions simultaneously. The Bank of China's right to issue was a deliberate concession tied to the handover negotiations, giving Beijing's flagship state bank a visible presence in Macau's monetary system well before the 1999 transfer of sovereignty to China.
Printed by CBPMC in Beijing, this 2020 issue is part of a long-running series whose design continuity across decades makes individual date variants easy to overlook when sorting stock.