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500 Patacas Banco da China
| Issuer | Banco da China (Bank of China), Macau Branch |
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| Year | 2020 |
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| Composition | Cotton paper |
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| Reverse description | Central vignette presents the A-Ma Temple (媽祖閣) in full architectural detail, with its ornate multi-tiered roof, stone guardian lions on the flanking stairways, and the temple name inscribed on the main gate tablet. The denomination 500 appears in mirror print at right, alongside a guilloche underprint in green tones, with the Bank of China logo and bilingual bank name at upper right. The date of issue and regulatory references are printed in small text at lower left. |
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| Protection description | Lotus flower watermark and electrotype numeral 500; embedded security thread |
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Banco da China became one of Macau's three note-issuing banks only in 1995, a deliberately political move ahead of the 1999 handover — giving Beijing a direct presence in the territory's currency supply before sovereignty transferred from Portugal. The 500 Pataca denomination sits at the top of the Bank of China's Macau series, the highest face value it issues.
Printed by China Banknote Printing and Minting Corporation, the same state enterprise that produces mainland renminbi, the security specification here is notably modest for a high-denomination note — watermark and thread only, without the polymer window or color-shifting ink increasingly common in comparable issues from neighboring Hong Kong.