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20 Cents
| Issuer | Hong Kong Monetary Authority |
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| Year | 1993-1998 |
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| Weight | 2.6 g |
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| Obverse description | Central motif depicting a stylised bloom of the Bauhinia blakeana (Hong Kong Orchid Tree), rendered in high relief with prominent petals and stamens radiating from the centre of the scalloped flan. The Chinese legend 香港 appears in traditional regular script at the upper left and upper right of the floral device, while the Latin inscription HONG KONG curves along the lower rim, following the coin's scalloped edge. |
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| Obverse lettering | 香 港 HONG KONG (Translation: Hong Kong) |
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Hong Kong's coinage authority shifted from the Royal Mint to domestic arrangements following the city's evolving pre-handover governance structure in the early 1990s. The Hong Kong Monetary Authority, established in 1993 through the merger of the Office of the Exchange Fund and the Commissioner of Banking, issued coins under its own name for only a brief window before the 1997 handover to the People's Republic of China rendered the issuing authority politically obsolete. Post-1997 issues continued the same coinage series under revised authority, making the HKMA-marked pieces confined to a five-year production span.