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100 Dollars Standard Chartered Bank
| Issuer | Standard Chartered Bank (Hong Kong) Limited |
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| Year | 2018-2020 |
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| Value | 100 Dollars |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is devoted to a richly coloured vignette of Cantonese opera performers in traditional stage costume and makeup, evoking the heritage of Hong Kong's performing arts. The composition celebrates classical Cantonese opera as a theme of traditional Chinese and Hong Kong culture. The denomination '100' and the bank's bilingual name are incorporated into the design alongside the copyright notice. |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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Standard Chartered's Hong Kong dollar notes occupy an odd position in modern currency — issued by a private commercial bank under the oversight of the Hong Kong Monetary Authority, with the issuing bank itself liable for the notes in circulation. That arrangement, rooted in Hong Kong's colonial-era three-bank issuing system, has survived every handover negotiation intact. Standard Chartered holds the smallest share of Hong Kong's private banknote circulation, well behind HSBC and the Bank of China.
Giesecke+Devrient have printed for Standard Chartered's Hong Kong series for decades. For a note of this value, a watermark-only security specification is notably lean by contemporary standards.