pataca

In Macau, the currency during the colonial period was, as it is today, the pataca.

Pataca is the Portuguese name for peso.

The currency is the pataca, which is worth a fraction less than the Hong Kong dollar.

The Bank of China also issued a 100 pataca banknote to commemorate its centennial anniversary.

In French, it was a piastre and in Portuguese, a pataca or patacão.

Timor-Leste adopted the escudo whilst still a Portuguese colony, having earlier used the pataca.

Pataca (Macau) stems from a 17th-century Spanish and Portuguese coin, the patacoon.

The historical exchange rates between the pataca and the US dollar (USD) are given below.

The pataca of Malta was a large copper coin minted during the 16th century and 17th century as fiduciary coin.

The Macao pataca (MOP) is similarly linked to the Hong Kong dollar.

In 1942, during the Second World War, the pataca was replaced by Japanese issues of the Netherlands Indies gulden at par.

The pataca was introduced in Portuguese Macau and Portuguese Timor in the year 1894, but only as a unit of account.

Despite the fact that the pataca is the official currency of Macau, most of the money in circulation in the territory is actually Hong Kong dollars.

Asked to speak a repetitive sound like "pataca pataca pataca," they will stumble over each iteration.

Asked to repeat a nonsense phrase like "pataca pataca pataca," they trip over each component as if there were three different words.

Although the pataca is the official currency in Macau, Hong Kong currency is commonly used and widely accepted in transactions, especially in tourist areas.

The Pataca (MOP$) which has almost the same value as the HK$ dollar, which is also accepted as currency in Macau.

After retiring, Pataca served as an assistant coach for his former club Créteil, under both Laurent Fournier and Hubert Velud.

Shops, hotels, casinos and restaurants in Macao do business in two currencies, the Hong Kong dollar and the Macao pataca.

Therefore, the Hong Kong dollar and the Macanese pataca remain the legal tenders in the two territories, and renminbi, although sometimes accepted, is not legal tender.

The name pataca derives from the fact that the Portuguese always referred to the Mexican dollar as the 'Pataca Mexicana'.

The special administrative regions of Hong Kong and Macau use the Hong Kong dollar and the Macanese pataca, respectively.

Macau's own currency, the pataca, is pegged to the Hong Kong dollar, and you can use your Hong Kong currency freely in Macau.

The name pataca is a Portuguese word which was applied to the Mexican dollars that were the main circulating coin in the wider region in the second half of the 19th century.

The first exclusively Macau coinage was not introduced until the year 1952, which happened to be the year after the last pataca fractional coins were minted for East Timor.