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1 Dollar HSBC
| Issuer | The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation |
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| Year | 1923-1925 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Blue on multicolour underprint. The bank name is printed across the top, with the denomination appearing in all four corners — two in Arabic numerals and two in Traditional Chinese characters. A framed vignette of Britannia occupies the left side, with the promise-to-pay text, date, and signature lines arranged across the centre and lower portion of the note. |
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| Reverse description | Purple. A central vignette shows a seated goddess holding a lyre, rendered in intaglio. The denomination appears four times around the design — twice in Arabic numerals and twice in Traditional Chinese — with bilingual geographic inscriptions in English and Chinese flanking the central composition. |
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Bradbury Wilkinson printed this series during a period when HSBC's Hong Kong dollar notes were not legal tender in any formal statutory sense — the colonial government had no obligation to accept them, yet they circulated without serious challenge because the bank's standing made the question largely academic. The 1923–1925 dating reflects consecutive printings rather than a single run; distinguishing between them typically comes down to serial prefix ranges rather than any visible typographic change.
P#171 is moderately scarce in the upper grades. The paper of this era is known to brown unevenly with age, and horizontal fold lines through the center are nearly universal on circulated examples.