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On 17 October 1983, the Hong Kong dollar was officially pegged to the U.S. dollar at a rate of HK$7.8 = US$1, officially switching back to the currency board system. The peg of Hong Kong dollar to the U.S. dollar in 1983 actually took place in the context of Sino-British negotiation regarding the future of Hong Kong after 1997.
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 reverse featured the Chinese characters and English words for 圓 (yùhn) one dollar, and 香港 Hong Kong, as well as an image of an English crowned lion in the centre. In 1993 the portrait of Elizabeth II was replaced with the Bauhinia flower, this design is used to the present day but its first year's issue was made of nickel-plated ...
The five-dollar coin is the second-highest-denomination coin of the Hong Kong dollar.It replaced the five-dollar banknote in 1976. It was first issued as a 10-sided coin in 1976, under British rule. The coin was also made of copper-nickel but weighed 10.76 grams, was 31 mm i
One thousand Dollars (Hong Kong) Value: 1000 Hong Kong dollars: Width: 163 or 165 mm: Height: 81.5 or 82 mm: Security features: Window, Watermark, Security thread, Registration device, Latent image, Optically Variable Ink, Iridescent image
Hong Kong two-dollar coin; HSBC (Hong Kong) J. Japanese military currency (1937–1945) N. Hong Kong Note Printing; P. Postal orders of Hong Kong; S. Standard ...
The ten-dollar coin is the highest-valued circulating coin issued in Hong Kong.. It circulates alongside the ten dollar banknote.It was first issued for circulation in 1994 to replace the $10 note, but the coin was not minted after 1997 and the Hong Kong Monetary Authority chose instead to reissue banknotes in 2002.
The Government, through the Hong Kong Monetary Authority, authorises three commercial banks to issue currency notes in Hong Kong: The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited; the Standard Chartered Bank (Hong Kong) Limited; and; the Bank of China (Hong Kong) Limited.