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500 Dollars Bank of China
| Issuer | Bank of China (Hong Kong) Limited |
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| Year | 2018-2023 |
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| Composition | Cotton paper |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in warm brown, terracotta, and blue-grey tones, centred on an intaglio vignette of the Wan Tong hexagonal columnar basalt rock formation of the High Island Reservoir geopark, its stacked volcanic columns rising from a surf-lapped shoreline with an island and mountain range visible across the water in the background. The denomination '500' is rendered in large multi-colour numerals at upper right and lower centre, with a mirror-image '500' in blue at upper left; the issuer name in Chinese characters and Roman lettering appears along the bottom margin, and a copyright notice runs vertically along the left border. |
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| Protection type | Watermark, Security thread, Hologram, Optically variable ink |
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The Bank of China (Hong Kong) Limited is one of three commercial banks licensed to issue Hong Kong dollar banknotes — a colonial-era arrangement maintained after the 1997 handover and still governed by the Hong Kong Monetary Authority through a linked exchange rate mechanism pegged to the US dollar since 1983. BOCHK's note-issuing role is relatively junior; it was only granted issuing authority in 1994, decades after HSBC and Standard Chartered.
The 500 dollar denomination sits near the top of the circulating series and turns over slowly in normal retail use — high-value notes in Hong Kong move primarily through banking channels rather than street commerce.