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500 Dollars Standard Chartered Bank
| Issuer | Standard Chartered Bank (Hong Kong) Limited |
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| Year | 2018-2023 |
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| Size | 153 × 79 mm |
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| Reverse description | The reverse carries a sweeping landscape vignette of the Lion Rock mountain range rendered in warm amber, brown, and blue tones with a fine hexagonal guilloche underprint, evoking Hong Kong's iconic natural scenery. A large optically variable numeral '500' in brown and blue occupies the upper right corner, while a mirror-image latent '500' appears in blue at the upper left. The issuer's name in English and Chinese is printed in a solid orange-brown band along the lower margin. |
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| Protection type | Watermark, Security thread, Hologram, Colour-shifting ink |
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Standard Chartered has issued banknotes in Hong Kong under the terms of its note-issuing licence, one of only three commercial banks permitted to do so under the oversight of the Hong Kong Monetary Authority, which holds equivalent notes as backing through the Exchange Fund. The arrangement is unusual by global standards — a private British-headquartered bank issuing legal tender in a Chinese special administrative region, a quirk of the colonial banking structure that survived the 1997 handover intact.
Giesecke+Devrient have printed for Standard Chartered's Hong Kong series across multiple decades, with the Leipzig facility handling high-denomination output. The $500 sits at the upper end of everyday transactional use in the territory.