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| Uitgever | Government of Hong Kong |
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| Jaar | 1936 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Beschrijving keerzijde | The reverse is dominated by a large central oval vignette formed by an elaborate radiating guilloche pattern in purple, enclosing the Chinese character 壹圓 above the English ONE DOLLAR. Two symmetrical acanthus-leaf ornaments flank the central oval, with the denomination numeral $1 repeated in each corner. The inscription GOVERNMENT OF HONG KONG appears across the top in bold lettering. |
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| Beschrijving beveiliging | Neant |
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| Opmerkingen |
The Government of Hong Kong's dollar notes of this period were issued directly by the colonial administration rather than through any of the chartered banks — an arrangement that kept small-denomination paper currency under Crown control while the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation and others handled larger values. The 1936 date places this note squarely in the interwar period of relative monetary stability before Japanese occupation suspended the series entirely in 1941.
Bradbury Wilkinson's New Malden facility handled the print run, as it did for a substantial portion of British colonial small-denomination issues during this decade. Notes of this series found in circulation post-1945 typically show heavy use, as wartime hoarding and the disruption of Japanese military currency had depleted surviving stock considerably by the time Sterling Zone trade resumed.