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20 Patacas Banco da China
| Issuer | Banco da China (Bank of China), Macau Branch |
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| Year | 2020 |
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| Value | 20 Patacas |
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| Reverse description | The Macau Science Center, with its distinctive conical form, dominates the central vignette, flanked by an ancient mariner's compass and interlocking geometric figures rendered as underprint elements in the background. Bilingual issuer and denomination inscriptions in Chinese and Portuguese appear alongside the full date of issue. |
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| Protection description | Lotus flower watermark with electrotype numeral 20 |
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The Bank of China has issued banknotes in Macau since 1995, one of three note-issuing banks permitted under the territory's currency arrangement — an unusual tripartite system that survived the 1999 handover intact and remains in place today. Each institution issues its own designs across the same denominations, meaning this 20 pataca note from 2020 circulates alongside functionally identical denominations from Banco Nacional Ultramarino and the Monetary Authority of Macao itself.
Cotton substrate and a basic watermark put this squarely at the lower end of the security specification for the series — appropriate for a workhorse denomination unlikely to attract serious counterfeiting attention.