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== Hong Kong $10 — HSBC, 1st January 1986 == | |||
An all-green bank issue. The top band carries 香港上海滙豐銀行 over "The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation", with "10" in both top corners inside Greek-key frames. At the left is the '''British royal coat of arms''' — lion and unicorn, "DIEU ET MON DROIT" — and below it a small vignette of a '''Chinese junk and harbour craft'''. The centre reads "Promises to pay the bearer / on demand at its Office here / TEN DOLLARS" over an orange-highlighted rosette guilloche, then "HONGKONG 1st JANUARY 1986", "By order of the Board of Directors", and the General Manager's signature. At the right is a blank watermark window in an orange-cornered frame, with 拾圓 set vertically beside it. The hexagonal HSBC logo sits at bottom left. The serial is printed twice. | |||
'''Condition:''' relatively crisp, with light foxing at the edges and one soft fold. | |||
'''Serial number:''' FG661842 (read from the photograph) | |||
== About this photograph == | |||
Obverse only; no reverse of this note was photographed. Taken 2026-06-27 for the Sayonara Sale listing [https://www.robnugen.com/en/sayonara/items/world-banknote-lot/ world-banknote-lot]. | |||
One of 15 notes in [[Items:World Banknote Lot]]. | |||
Latest revision as of 21:46, 4 September 2026
World Banknote Lot — item photo (leaving-Japan catalog)
Hong Kong $10 — HSBC, 1st January 1986
An all-green bank issue. The top band carries 香港上海滙豐銀行 over "The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation", with "10" in both top corners inside Greek-key frames. At the left is the British royal coat of arms — lion and unicorn, "DIEU ET MON DROIT" — and below it a small vignette of a Chinese junk and harbour craft. The centre reads "Promises to pay the bearer / on demand at its Office here / TEN DOLLARS" over an orange-highlighted rosette guilloche, then "HONGKONG 1st JANUARY 1986", "By order of the Board of Directors", and the General Manager's signature. At the right is a blank watermark window in an orange-cornered frame, with 拾圓 set vertically beside it. The hexagonal HSBC logo sits at bottom left. The serial is printed twice.
Condition: relatively crisp, with light foxing at the edges and one soft fold.
Serial number: FG661842 (read from the photograph)
About this photograph
Obverse only; no reverse of this note was photographed. Taken 2026-06-27 for the Sayonara Sale listing world-banknote-lot.
One of 15 notes in Items:World Banknote Lot.
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