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1 Dollar HSBC
| Issuer | The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation |
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| Year | 1904-1913 |
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| Value | 1 Dollar (1 HKD) |
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| Obverse lettering | THE HONG KONG & SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION HONG KONG, 1st June, [YEAR]. PROMISES TO PAY THE BEARER ON DEMAND ONE DOLLAR LOCAL CURRENCY AT ITS OFFICE HERE, VALUE RECEIVED. BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS CHIEF MANAGER CHIEF ACCT HONG KONG 壹 BRADBURY, WILKINSON & CO LD ENGRAVERS |
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| Variants | P#155a - 01.01.1904 & 01.05.1906 1 printed and 1 handwritten P#155b - 01.07.1913 2 printed |
| Comments |
The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation was one of only three note-issuing banks permitted to circulate paper currency in Hong Kong during this period, a privilege rooted in the colony's 1866 banking ordinance. HSBC's position was dominant — its notes functioned as the de facto currency of commercial Hong Kong, widely accepted across the treaty ports and used heavily in trade finance between China and Europe.
Bradbury, Wilkinson held the contract for this series through a competitive process that increasingly favored specialist security printers over general commercial houses. Their intaglio work on colonial bank notes of this period is among the most technically accomplished of the era's private bank printing.
P#155 spans a nine-year issue window, meaning signatures and dates within the type vary considerably — authentication requires attention to the specific signing officer.