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One Dollars (Hong Kong) Value: 1 Hong Kong dollars: Width: 126 mm: Height: 79 mm ... The one dollar note was first issued by The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking ...
Hong Kong officially introduced a new series of coin on New Year's Day (1 January) 1993 at stroke of midnight HKT in denominations of 10-cent, 20-cent, 50-cent, HK$1, HK$2 and HK$10. Since the introduction of the Octopus card in 1997, small value payments and purchases in Hong Kong are mostly made as Octopus transactions.
The Mercantile Bank was absorbed by HSBC in 1978 and ceased issuing notes. In 1985, 20-dollar notes were introduced, whilst, in 1993, a 10-dollar coin was introduced and the banks stopped issuing 10-dollar notes. In 1994, the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA), gave authority to the Bank of China to issue notes.
The second introduction of a dollar coin was started in 1960 as a copper-nickel coin of 30 mm in diameter, 2.25 mm thick, and weighing 11.66 g. The circulation of this coin was ended in 1978 with the issuance of a smaller coin of 25.50 mm in diameter, 1.95 mm thickness and weighing 7.10 g.
The One-Dollar Currency Note Ordinance of that year led to the introduction of one-dollar notes by the government and the government acknowledged the Hong Kong dollar as the local monetary unit. It was not until 1937 that the legal tender of Hong Kong was finally unified. In 1939, the Hong Kong dollar was put on a fixed peg of HK$16 = £1 ($1 ...
Hong Kong one-dollar note; I. Indian 1-rupee note; N. New Zealand one-dollar note; O. One leu; P. Philippine one-peso note; R. The Royal Bank of Scotland £1 note; U.
H. Hong Kong fifty-dollar note; Hong Kong five hundred-dollar note; Hong Kong five-cent note; Hong Kong five-dollar note; Hong Kong one hundred and fifty-dollar note
The one-cent banknote was the smallest denominated banknote issued in Hong Kong. They were issued by the government and were initially released on 30 May 1941 and printed by Noronha and Company Limited [1] to provide small change because of a lack of coinage brought on by the Second World War.