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| 背面描述 | The reverse is dominated by a central vignette of the HSBC headquarters building in Hong Kong, flanked on either side by the celebrated bronze lion statues — Stephen and Stitt — that guard its entrance. A multicolour guilloche ground extends across the entire field, with denomination numerals and Chinese characters distributed through the border panels. |
| 背面铭文 | 伍佰 香港上海匯豐銀行有限公司 500 500 The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited 伍佰 |
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The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation began issuing notes in its own name in 1865, and by the 1990s remained one of three commercial banks licensed to issue Hong Kong dollar banknotes — an arrangement unique among major financial centers. This series straddles the 1997 handover, meaning notes dated before and after July 1997 carry the same design but exist in politically distinct monetary moments. HSBC continued as a note-issuing bank under the Basic Law without interruption.
Thomas De La Rue's involvement here is routine for the issuer — HSBC used them extensively across this period. Security provision on this denomination is relatively light for a high-value note, relying on watermark and thread without the more sophisticated features De La Rue was producing for other clients by the mid-1990s.