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500 Patacas Banco da China
| Issuer | Banco da China (Bank of China), Macau Branch |
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| Year | 1995-1999 |
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| Value | 500 Patacas |
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| Obverse description | Green and light blue intaglio note with a large vignette of the Amizade (Friendship) Bridge at right, rendered in fine line engraving against a pale guilloche underprint. The denomination 伍佰圓 / QUINHENTAS PATACAS appears in large characters at center, flanked by serial number panels at left and lower right. The issuing authority 中國銀行 / BANCO DA CHINA is inscribed at top, with decree reference and date of issue at lower center. |
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| Protection type | Watermark, Security thread |
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Banco da China's entry into Macanese note issuance was itself a political signal. The bank was granted issuing rights in Macau in 1995 — alongside the long-established Banco Nacional Ultramarino — as part of the gradual Sinicization of the territory's institutions ahead of the 1999 handover to China. Two banks issuing parallel, legal-tender notes of identical denominations simultaneously is an unusual arrangement by any standard, and this 500 Patacas is a direct product of that transitional compromise.
The series ran only through the handover year, after which BNU retained its issuing role alongside Bank of China under the post-handover framework.