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50 Dollars HSBC
| Issuer | The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited |
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| Year | 2010-2016 |
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| Size | 143 × 74 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | 50 The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited 香港上海匯豐銀行有限公司 憑票即付 Promises to pay the bearer on demand at its office here 港幣伍拾元 FIFTY HONG KONG DOLLARS 50 承董事會命 By order of the Board of Directors 行政總裁 Chief Executive 香港二〇一二年一月一日 Hong Kong 1 January 2012 |
| Reverse description | The reverse is dominated by an intaglio vignette of elaborately decorated traditional Chinese lanterns suspended on tall poles, illustrating the Spring Lantern Festival celebrated at the close of the Lunar New Year; figures of festival-goers appear in the lower right portion of the scene. A large numeral '50' in green guilloche occupies the left field, complemented by a vertical windowed security thread at centre and a red denomination numeral '50' in the lower right corner. The bank title is printed in bilingual form at the top, with the festival title and copyright notice along the lower margin. |
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HSBC has issued Hong Kong dollars continuously since 1865, making it one of three note-issuing banks authorized under the territory's unusual arrangement — unique among major financial centers in having no central bank perform that function. The 2010 series represented a significant redesign for HSBC's Hong Kong issues, moving away from the lion imagery that had defined the bank's visual identity on its notes for decades.
Cotton substrate with watermark and embedded security thread places this squarely in the competent-but-unremarkable tier of early 21st-century commercial bank security printing. The series ran through 2016, when updated security specifications prompted the next revision.