10 Dollars

The Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Corporation's 19th-century notes were printed by several London firms over the decades, and Metchim & Son represents one of the less prominent contractors in that rotation. The firm was primarily known as a printer of legal and commercial stationery rather than a specialist security printer — an unusual choice for a bank of HSBC's regional standing, and one that didn't last long in the contract history.

Surviving examples from this decade are genuinely rare. The bank periodically called in and destroyed unissued stock, and notes that did circulate across Hong Kong and the treaty ports faced a punishing climate.