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1.000 Patacas
| Issuer | Banco Nacional Ultramarino |
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| Year | 1999 |
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| Reference(s) | P#75 |
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| Obverse lettering | BANCO NACIONAL ULTRAMARINO 大西洋銀行 MACAU MIL PATACAS 壹千圓 壹千 1000 DECRETO-LEI Nº 68/88/M, DE 8 DE AGOSTO DECRETO-LEI Nº 43/91/M, DE 8 DE JULHO DECRETO-LEI Nº 1/99/M, DE 18 DE JANEIRO MACAU, 20 DE DEZEMBRO DE 1999 CONSELHO DE ADMINISTRAÇÃO PRESIDENTE DIRECTOR GERAL DO DEPARTAMENTO DE MACAU |
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| Reverse lettering | BANCO NACIONAL ULTRAMARINO 壹千 1000 MIL PATACAS 壹千 |
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The Banco Nacional Ultramarino — a Lisbon-based colonial institution founded in 1864 — had no business issuing currency in 1999 by any ordinary logic. By then, Macau was weeks from handover to China, scheduled for 20 December 1999. This note exists because the BNU retained its role as sole issuer of patacas right through the transition, a contractual arrangement that survived the end of Portuguese administration entirely. The bank continues to share that role today alongside Banco da China.
Thomas De La Rue's involvement here is unsurprising — they had printed BNU Macau issues for decades by this point.