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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 ten-dollar note was first produced in 1868 by The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation with the formal adoption of a currency system just for Hong Kong. There had been a variety of the green coloured ten-dollar notes issued by several banks concurrently. These were all phased out with the introduction of the ten dollar coin in 1994.
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.
Hong Kong dollar banknotes in everyday circulation are issued in denominations of $10, $20, $50, $100, $500 and $1,000. Although it is common practice for most Hong Kong businesses to reject $1,000 notes due to the risk of counterfeit money. [1]
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.
The ten cent banknote was a banknote issued in Hong Kong.They were issued by the government, and were initially released on 16 October 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, and an influx of people because of the Second Sino-Japanese War.
Hong Kong on Tuesday imposed bounties of HK$1 million ($128,728) on six more pro-democracy campaigners deemed to have violated national security laws, as well as revoking the passports of seven ...
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