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1000 Dollars HSBC
| Issuer | The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation |
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| Year | 1988-1991 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Reverse lettering | 1000 壹仟 壹仟 1000 1000 The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation 1000 |
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| Protection description | Lion's head. |
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HSBC's highest denomination in this series was printed by De La Rue during a period when Hong Kong's currency arrangements were under increasing scrutiny ahead of the 1997 handover question. The note circulated during a period of intense capital sensitivity — large-denomination notes saw unusually high turnover as residents moved money in and out of the territory throughout the late 1980s and into the 1990s.
P#199 is notably scarce in heavily circulated grades for precisely that reason: high-value notes tended to move through banking channels rather than retail hands, and were often repatriated and destroyed rather than held by the public.