HK$10 — Ten Dollars
The artwork
Front: Deep green, with the bank's name in English across the top and 香港上海滙豐銀行 above it. At the left, a crowned shield with lion and unicorn supporters, the Garter ribbon and "Dieu et mon droit", resting on a compartment of harbour, junks and shore buildings. Centre: the promise to pay, TEN DOLLARS over a rosette of pale guilloche, dated HONGKONG 1st JANUARY 1991, signed by the General Manager. The HSBC hexagon sits bottom left; a plain oval panel at the right holds the watermark; 拾圓 beside it. Serial MA605661 twice.
Back: The bank's own architecture and menagerie. Centre, drawn in fine line, the Norman Foster headquarters at 1 Queen's Road Central, its trusses and mast structure rising the full height of the note. Flanking it, the two bronze lions of the banking hall steps — Stephen roaring on the left, Stitt calm on the right. Behind Stitt, a sailing junk and a cargo ship in the harbour. Ribbon panels above read 10 and 拾圓.
In circulation
Issued from 1985 through the early 1990s, the last dated notes of the type falling in 1992. The ten-dollar note was then retired in favour of the government ten-dollar coin introduced in 1993, and no paper ten circulated again until the Government's own purple note appeared in 2002.
Details
- CurrencyDollar (HK$)
- DenominationTen Dollars
- Collectedon the Hong Kong journey, 1993
- IssuerThe Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation
- SeriesDated 1st January 1991
- PrinterThomas De La Rue and Company Limited, as printed at the foot of the face
- WatermarkLion's head, in the clear panel at the right of the face
- SignatureSingle signature, General Manager