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1000 Dollars Hong Kong International Airport
| Issuer | Hong Kong |
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| Year | 1998 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Obverse description | At center, a finely detailed sprig of Bauhinia blakeana (the Hong Kong orchid tree flower) depicted in high relief, with five broad petals extending dynamically to the right across the polished field. The Chinese characters 香港 appear in the upper left field, and the Latin legend HONG KONG curves along the lower rim. The composition is rendered in a naturalistic yet stylized manner characteristic of commemorative proof coinage. |
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| Obverse script | Latin/Chinese |
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Issued to mark the opening of Chek Lap Kok airport in July 1998, which replaced the notoriously cramped Kai Tak after nearly three decades of white-knuckle approaches over Kowloon rooftops. The new airport, built on a leveled and expanded island off Lantau, was one of the largest civil engineering projects of the twentieth century — and it opened just days after the handover of sovereignty to China, making the timing politically charged in ways the official commemorative framing carefully avoided.