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500 Patacas Banco da China
| Issuer | Banco da China (Bank of China), Macau Branch |
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| Year | 2020 |
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| Printer | China Banknote Printing and Minting Corporation, Beijing |
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| Obverse description | At left, a stylized lotus flower vignette above façades of traditional buildings; at centre and right, a lion dance costume in vivid detail with the Bank of China (Macau) tower rising in the background. The denomination 500 appears in large numerals at upper right and lower left, with bilingual inscriptions in Chinese and Portuguese identifying the issuing bank. |
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| Obverse lettering | 500 QUINHENTAS PATACAS 中國銀行 BANCO DA CHINA 500 澳門元伍佰圓 (Translation: Bank of China Five Hundred Patacas Five Hundred Macanese Patacas) |
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Banco da China became one of Macau's three note-issuing banks only in 1995, a deliberately political move ahead of the 1999 handover — giving Beijing a direct presence in the territory's currency supply before sovereignty transferred from Portugal. The 500 Pataca denomination sits at the top of the Bank of China's Macau series, the highest face value it issues.
Printed by China Banknote Printing and Minting Corporation, the same state enterprise that produces mainland renminbi, the security specification here is notably modest for a high-denomination note — watermark and thread only, without the polymer window or color-shifting ink increasingly common in comparable issues from neighboring Hong Kong.