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50 Dollars Bank of China

Issuer Bank of China (Hong Kong) Limited
Year 2003-2009
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Size 148 × 74 mm
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Obverse description A vignette of the Bank of China Tower in Hong Kong occupies the right portion of the note, rendered in a contemporary architectural style, accompanied by a smaller inset drawing of the Hong Kong Cultural Centre at the right margin. The face incorporates guilloche underprinting and carries the full promise-to-pay legend across the lower field.
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Reverse description The reverse carries a panoramic landscape vignette of the Hong Kong Cultural Centre set alongside the historic Tsim Sha Tsui clock tower — the sole surviving remnant of the old Kowloon-Canton Railway terminus — and the Star Ferry pier, rendered in a detailed contemporary illustrative style.
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The Bank of China (Hong Kong) Limited — a subsidiary of the mainland Bank of China — gained note-issuing rights in Hong Kong following the 1997 handover, becoming one of three commercial banks still authorized to issue currency under the unusual arrangement in which the HKMA functions as a currency board rather than a direct issuer. This series, running from 2003, was the first long-run BOC(HK) family produced entirely under post-handover conditions, without the transitional pressures that marked the late 1990s issues.

Paper substrate for this denomination was already becoming dated by the mid-2000s, as the other Hong Kong issuing banks were moving toward polymer for lower denominations. The single watermark security feature reflects the more conservative specification BOC(HK) held to across this run.

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