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10 Dollars Standard Chartered Bank
| Issuer | Standard Chartered Bank |
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| Year | 1993-1995 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | The right half of the obverse is dominated by an intaglio vignette of a mythical dragon-fish (a traditional Chinese auspicious creature), rendered in fine line engraving against a multicolour guilloche underprint in green and peach tones. To the left, a vertical dark green latticework border and a circular decorative rosette in green and blue are set against the note's pale ground. Central inscriptions in both English and Chinese present the bank's promise-to-pay text in italic script, with the denomination 'Ten Dollars / 拾圓' in bold letterpress, and the date and place of issue at lower centre flanked by two facsimile signatures. |
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| Signature(s) | Mark Walls and A.W. Nicole |
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Standard Chartered's Hong Kong dollar notes of this period were issued under the authority granted to three note-issuing banks — a colonial-era arrangement that survived the handover negotiations intact. The 1993–95 series marked a transitional moment for the bank's note design programme, coinciding with broader uncertainty about the territory's monetary future ahead of 1997.
Thomas De La Rue handled the printing, as they had for Standard Chartered's Hong Kong issues across several preceding series. The dual-signature format — Walls and Nicole — places this note within a narrow window of the bank's senior management succession.