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20 Dollars HSBC
| Issuer | The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited |
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| Year | 2018-2023 |
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| Value | 20 Dollars |
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| Obverse description | At centre, a vignette of the HSBC headquarters building in Hong Kong, flanked by the bank's lion statue and HSBC logo, set against a multicolour guilloche underprint. The denomination appears as a registration device and is further rendered in green SPARK Orbital optically variable ink on a leaf motif at lower left. Bilingual legends in Chinese and English, including the full bank name, promise-to-pay clause, and date of issue, are arranged around the central vignette. |
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| Reverse lettering | 一 家 茶 敍 Tea Gathering 20 HSBC THE HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION LIMITED 香港上海匯豐銀行有限公司 |
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HSBC's position as one of three note-issuing banks in Hong Kong is a legacy of the colonial banking framework that survived the 1997 handover intact — an arrangement unique among major financial centers. The 2018 series was the first complete redesign HSBC had undertaken in over a decade, introducing updated security architecture as Hong Kong's HKMA pushed all three issuing banks toward a common modernization schedule.
Thomas De La Rue has printed HSBC's Hong Kong notes for well over a century, a relationship that has outlasted empires, occupations, and currency crises.