Evidence coverage: 1894–1906. This is the span of collected observations, not the currency’s lifetime.
This record includes associated currencies and earlier interpretations. The article selects the evidence relevant to its own history.
No distinct successor currency is established in the loaded view.
Evidence within this identity, not separate currencies.
An 1895 inquiry into Macao lottery finances recorded pataca-denominated arrears to the provincial treasury. Association with the continuing pataca identity remains qualified.
Sources and qualifications →Macao pataca accounting was explicitly established as one Mexican dollar per pataca in1894; the subsequent local currency adopted that accounting unit. This is explicit adoption of an existing monetary account, not etymology or coin weight alone. Local issue chronology remains bounded; the ancestry is supported.
Sources and qualifications →Includes dated issues, standards, subdivisions and institutional changes. Each event retains the source's date qualifications.
Macao’s government history distinguishes the 1901 BNU agreement, 1905 issuing function and first notes in 1906.
C122Dated observations, not a proven complete lifespan.
Macao’s government history distinguishes the 1901 BNU agreement, 1905 issuing function and first notes in 1906.
Entrada em Macau
1901 agreement, 1905 issuing function and 1906 notes are distinct milestones.
Denomination list not adopted.
AMCM’s 2010 review reports a fixed middle rate of 1.03 patacas per Hong Kong dollar.
Printed pp. 37–38
Historical 1.03 peg observation; exact inception and all subsequent legal amendments not inferred.
The IMF’s June 2025 account identifies BNU and Bank of China as issuers of the same pataca currency.
Historical background
Institutional explanatory article, not the banknote-issuance contracts.
Macao adopted the local practice of accounting for a Mexican silver dollar as one pataca into its territorial currency. The 1894–1906 association is qualified; neither the first note issue nor the later Hong Kong-dollar peg establishes a currency birth.
Corrected interpretation: Revision 27 supplies a new evidence basis for R-V23-009. This is explicit adoption of an existing monetary account, not etymology or coin weight alone. Local issue chronology remains bounded; the ancestry is supported. Replacement evidence: C1611.
Main paragraph; authorship/source metadata at bottom; PDF pp.1–2
Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.
Main paragraph; authorship/source metadata at bottom; PDF pp.1–2
Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.
An 1895 inquiry into Macao lottery finances recorded pataca-denominated arrears to the provincial treasury. Association with the continuing pataca identity remains qualified.
pp.387,391–392, footnotes2,12–15
Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.
Macao pataca accounting was explicitly established as one Mexican dollar per pataca in 1894; the subsequent local currency adopted that accounting unit.
Opening paragraph
Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.
Full introductory account-unit passage inspected, not merely search snippet.