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500 Yuan Return of Macau to China
| Issuer | People's Bank of China |
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| Year | 1999 |
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| Weight | 155.52 g |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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| Mintage | 1999 - Proof - 228 |
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Issued to mark the handover of Macau from Portugal on December 20, 1999 — the last European colonial transfer in Asia — this five-ounce piece was produced in a mintage of just 1,000 examples. Portugal had administered Macau since the 1550s, making it one of the longest-running colonial arrangements in history, over 400 years by the time the territory reverted to Chinese sovereignty under the "one country, two systems" framework negotiated in the 1987 Sino-Portuguese Joint Declaration.