10 Cents - Elizabeth II

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.