patacas in a sentence

1. On the other hand, try not to leave Macau with a lot of patacas.

2. Pay in Macau with Patacas (Ptcs) or the nearly equivalent Hongkong Dollar.

3. Roughly 10 Patacas is equivalent to 1 EURO and 8 Patacas is equivalent to 1 US Dollar.

4. Changing your currency into patacas outside of Macau is just about impossible and pointless.

5. Transactions made at government offices may only be made in patacas, and most casinos will only accept Hong Kong dollars.

6. In September 2019, for example, the casinos were only able to generate sales of 22.1 billion patacas (around 2.47 billion euros).

7. The casinos accept only Hong Kong dollars and Macau Patacas and guests can exchange money either at casino counters or the nearby banks.

8. Changing to or from patacas outside of Macau is almost impossible even in Hong Kong, so any patacas should be spent or changed before leaving the SAR.

9. Chinese yuan (CNY) are also accepted in some businesses, often at a poor exchange rate, but they can easily be changed to patacas at bureaux de change and banks.

10. For some reason, no matter what hotel you're in Macau, a brochure from the front desk or a general list of rates on the website will always be overpriced by about 1,000 patacas.

11. However, the Chinese were suspicious of these paper patacas, being so accustomed to using silver for barter, and as such, the paper patacas circulated at a discount in relation to the silver dollar coins.

12. These investments, and the attendance that it attracts, allow the Macau Prime Minister to pay every Macanese (from new-borns to 100 years old) a check for 5000 patacas from the budget surplus at the end of each year.