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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 ...
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 one dollar note was first issued by The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation from 1872 to 1935. No other bank issued this denomination. No other bank issued this denomination. In 1935 the Government of Hong Kong took over the issuing and became the sole issuer for this denomination.
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. Due to the lack of public confidence in the talks, on 24 September 1983, the Hong Kong dollar was devalued by 15% over 2 days to a historical low at HK$9.6 to US$1.
H. Hong Kong fifty-cent coin; Hong Kong five-cent coin; Hong Kong five-dollar coin; Hong Kong one-cent coin; Hong Kong one-dollar coin; Hong Kong one-mil coin
A dollar coin is a coin valued at one dollar in a given currency. Examples include: Australian one dollar coin; Canadian one dollar coin, or Loonie; Canadian silver dollar; Hong Kong one-dollar coin; New Zealand one dollar coin; Dollar coin (United States) Spanish milled dollar
Wengel is also the author of several articles on the attribution and authentication of coins, one of which won a Numismatic Literary Guild (NLG) award. ... China, and Hong Kong and as an ...
The one mil coin was the smallest denomination of the Hong Kong dollar from 1863 to 1866, after this date it was no longer issued but may have circulated much longer. Its value was one tenth of a cent, or a thousandth of a dollar.