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1.000 Hong Kong Dollars
| Issuer | Bank of China |
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| Year | 1994-2000 |
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| Composition | Cotton paper |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in orange and olive tones, centred on a large vignette of the Bank of China Tower in Hong Kong, flanked by fine guilloche underprint panels. To the right, an intaglio vignette of lily flowers appears alongside the large numeral '1000' in the upper and lower corners. The issuing authority legends are rendered in both Chinese characters and English, with the promise-to-pay text and the denomination 港幣壹仟圓 / ONE THOUSAND HONG KONG DOLLARS inscribed across the centre. |
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| Protection type | Watermark, Security thread |
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The Bank of China began issuing Hong Kong dollar notes in 1994, following its designation as one of the three note-issuing banks under Hong Kong's plural currency arrangement. This was itself a politically significant expansion — BOC had been present in Hong Kong since 1917 but only gained note-issuing authority in the run-up to the 1997 handover, a deliberate structural change that ensured mainland-affiliated banking would have formal issuance rights before sovereignty transferred.
The P#334 series bridges the handover year, with printing continuing through 2000, making individual note dates commercially important to date-conscious collectors. Post-1997 dated examples carry identical security specifications but represent the first BOC Hong Kong issues under Chinese sovereignty.