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500 Dollars HSBC

Emittente The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited
Anno 2003-2009
Tipo Standard circulation banknote
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Descrizione del dritto The left portion of the obverse is dominated by a large intaglio vignette of Stephen, the bronze lion guardian statue installed at the HSBC main building in Hong Kong, rendered in fine engraved detail against a warm yellow-ochre guilloche underprint. A red-brown horizontal band across the upper register carries the bank's full name in English and Chinese characters, flanked by large multicolour numeral '500' at the upper left and a second '500' at the upper right. The right half of the note displays the promise-to-pay text in English and Chinese, the denomination in both scripts, an executive director's signature with date, and the HSBC hexagonal logo alongside traditional Chinese decorative scroll motifs.
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Descrizione del rovescio The reverse presents an aerial panoramic vignette of Hong Kong International Airport at Chek Lap Kok, with the airport's runways and terminal structures rendered in detailed intaglio engraving on a red-brown ground, mountains visible in the background across the bay. In the lower foreground, the cylindrical air traffic control tower appears at lower left alongside a colourful tricolour spiral ornamental motif, while the curved roof structure of the passenger terminal occupies the lower centre and right. A departing aircraft is visible at upper right, and the denomination numeral '500' appears in an oval at the lower right corner.
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HSBC's high-denomination series of this period was produced during a window when Hong Kong's three note-issuing banks were under pressure to harmonize security standards following a series of counterfeiting incidents in the late 1990s that had targeted large-denomination notes across the region. The $500 was a particular target — high enough in face value to make forgery worthwhile, common enough in commercial transactions to pass without close scrutiny.

P#210 spans a seven-year print run, meaning date collectors will find meaningful variety across the series. Later issues incorporated incremental security upgrades without a formal redesign, so the note's external appearance changed little while the substrate and thread specification quietly shifted.

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