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100 Patacas Banco da China
| Issuer | Banco da China (Bank of China), Macau Branch |
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| Year | 2020 |
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| Value | 100 Patacas |
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| Reverse description | The central intaglio vignette presents the Tung Sin Tong Historical Archive Exhibition Hall, a three-storey Sino-Portuguese colonial façade rendered in fine blue line engraving against a light blue guilloche underprint with floral and foliate motifs. The denomination numeral '100' appears at upper left alongside the Chinese characters '澳門元' and 'PATACAS', with bilingual date and regulatory inscriptions along the left margin. A watermark window is visible at right. |
| Reverse lettering | 中國銀行 BANCO DA CHINA 100 澳門元 PATACAS 二零二零年五月十八日 澳門 MACAU, 18 DE MAIO DE 2020 根據第17/2020號行政法規 NOS TERMOS DO REGULAMENTO ADMINISTRATIVO N.º 17/2020 澳門分行行長 DIRECTOR-GERAL DA SUCURSAL DE MACAU (Translation: Bank of China 100 Macanese Patacas / Macau, 18 May 2020 / Pursuant to Administrative Regulation No. 17/2020 / Director-General of the Macau Branch) |
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Banco da China has issued Macanese patacas since 1995, when it joined Banco Nacional Ultramarino as the second note-issuing bank on the territory — an unusual arrangement that survived the 1999 handover to China intact and continues today. The dual-issue system is a deliberate policy choice, not a legacy oddity; both banks remain authorized issuers under the Basic Law.
China Banknote Printing and Minting Corporation handles production for both of Macau's issuing banks, which makes the competitive-issuance arrangement largely cosmetic at the production level.