Macau's gold lunar series was produced under Portuguese administration in the final years before the 1999 handover to China, a period when the territory was actively cultivating its numismatic program as both a revenue stream and a cultural statement. The series was struck by the Casa da Moeda in Lisbon rather than locally.
KM#60 is occasionally confused with issues from the same series in different denominations; the 500 Pataca weight specification places it firmly in the smaller of the two gold formats offered that year.
Macau's gold lunar series was produced under Portuguese administration in the final years before the 1999 handover to China, a period when the territory was actively cultivating its numismatic program as both a revenue stream and a cultural statement. The series was struck by the Casa da Moeda in Lisbon rather than locally.
KM#60 is occasionally confused with issues from the same series in different denominations; the 500 Pataca weight specification places it firmly in the smaller of the two gold formats offered that year.