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100 Dollars Standard Chartered Bank
| Issuer | Standard Chartered Bank |
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| Year | 1985-1992 |
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| Printer | Thomas De La Rue & Company |
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| Reverse lettering | 壹佰圓 100 渣打銀行 Standard Chartered Bank 100 壹佰圓 DIEU ET MON DROIT |
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| Protection description | Letters "SCB" above a helmeted warrior's head. |
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Standard Chartered's Hong Kong dollar issues of this period occupied a peculiar constitutional position: the bank's right to issue currency derived from colonial ordinance, meaning these notes were technically liabilities of a private British bank circulating as legal tender in a Crown colony. The arrangement dated back to the nineteenth century and survived every postwar monetary reform largely intact.
Thomas De La Rue printed the series across a seven-year window spanning the 1984 Sino-British Joint Declaration — the political agreement that set Hong Kong's handover deadline. The Mark Walls and P.B. Rainer signature combination helps narrow individual notes within the broader 1985–1992 date range.