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2 Dollars - Hong Kong Jockey Club
| Issuer | The Royal Hong Kong Jockey Club |
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| Year | 1965 |
| Type | Pattern or trial banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | The Royal Hong Kong Jockey Club 港幣貳圓 港幣貳圓 Special Cash Sweep on the Kwangtung Handicap - 1965 TO BE HELD ON SATURDAY, 13TH NOVEMBER, 1965 PEAT, MARWICK, MITCHELL & CO. TREASURERS PRINCE'S BUILDING D. BENSON, ESQ., OBE THE HON. SIR SIK-NIN CHAU, C.B.E. W. T. STANTON, ESQ. STEWARD IN CHARGE OF CASH SWEEPS THIS TICKET IS ISSUED SUBJECT TO THE SPECIAL CASH SWEEP RULES OF THE ROYAL HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB 2 DOLLARS 2 DOLLARS PRINTED BY THE HONG KONG PRINTING PRESS. LTD. |
| Reverse description | The reverse presents a detailed prize schedule in both English and Chinese (traditional characters), setting out the prize tiers for ticket sales thresholds of 1,500,000, 2,000,000, and 2,500,000 tickets, with first, second, and third prizes listed for each tier alongside allocations for drawers of unplaced qualified horses. The Chinese text mirrors the English prize information in full, rendered in traditional characters throughout. The reverse closes with the names of the three Jockey Club Cash Sweep managers in Chinese and the printer's colophon of the Hong Kong Printing Press Ltd. |
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The Royal Hong Kong Jockey Club operated one of the few legally sanctioned gambling monopolies in colonial Hong Kong, and its private scrip served a specific and narrow purpose: facilitating wagering transactions at the track without requiring punters to carry government currency onto the racecourse. These notes circulated entirely within the club's own ecosystem — issued at the betting windows, redeemable at the same, and never intended to leave the premises.
Survival rate is low for exactly that reason. Notes were returned, cancelled, and destroyed after each race meeting as a matter of standard club accounting practice. The 1965 date places this issue well before the Jockey Club's formal reorganisation in the 1970s.