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10 Cents - Elizabeth II
| Issuer | Government of Hong Kong |
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| Year | 1961-1965 |
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| Currency | Dollar (1863-date) |
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| Obverse description | Printed entirely in red on white paper, the obverse carries a guilloche-framed oval vignette of Queen Elizabeth II in right-facing portrait at the right, wearing the State Diadem. To the left, a second oval guilloche panel bears the Chinese denomination characters 拾分 against a fine lathe-work underprint. The denomination TEN CENTS and its Chinese equivalent appear in the centre, flanked by the legal tender clause and the issuing authority inscription, with '10c' numerals repeated in the four corners. |
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| Obverse lettering | GOVERNMENT OF HONG KONG 香港政府 THESE NOTES ARE LEGAL TENDER FOR THE PAYMENT OF ANY AMOUNT NOT EXCEEDING TWO DOLLARS TEN CENTS 拾分 FOR THE GOVERNMENT OF HONG KONG FINANCIAL SECRETARY 10c |
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Hong Kong's fractional paper notes were a practical response to a chronic shortage of small-denomination coinage during the postwar decades. The 10 Cent issues of this period were never particularly popular with the public — small, easily lost, and structurally fragile at a size that invited folding and pocket wear. Circulated survivors in any presentable condition are genuinely harder to find than the print run figures might suggest.
De La Rue produced these in London, as they did the overwhelming majority of Hong Kong government paper from this period.