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1000 Dollars Hong Kong International Airport
| Issuer | Hong Kong |
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| Year | 1998 |
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| Currency | Dollar (1863-date) |
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| Reverse lettering | 壹 仟 圓 1998 $1000 (Translation: One Thousand Dollars) |
| Edge | Reeded |
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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.