Currencies of Hong Kong Currencies of Hong Kong Hong Kong banknotes in everyday circulation are $10, $20, $50, $100, $500 and $1,000. In 2002, the HKSAR Government issued a new ten dollar note in recognition of a continuing demand among the public for a note in addition to the coin. The existing $10 notes issued by two note-issuing banks remain legal tender, but they are no longer printed. The one-cent note issued by the Government was demonetised and ceased to be legal tender on 1 October 1995. ...more on Wikipedia about "Hong Kong banknotes"
The Hong Kong coinage, including $10, $5, $2, $1, 50 cents, 20 cents and 10 cents, is issued by Hong Kong Monetary Authority on behalf of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government. Until 1992 these coins were embossed with the Queen Elizabeth II's head. In 1993 a programme was initiated to replace the Queen's Head series with a new series depicting the Bauhinia flower. The first Bauhinia coins, the $5 and $2 coins, were issued in January 1993. New $1, 50-cent and 20-cent coins were issued in October 1993, and a new 10-cent coin in May 1994. The $10 coin, the latest in the Bauhinia series, was issued in November 1994. Since the beginning of the coin replacement programme in 1993, over 585 million Queen's Head coins have been withdrawn from circulation. However, the Queen's Head coins remain legal tender. ...more on Wikipedia about "Hong Kong coinage"
The Hong Kong Dollar ( ISO 4217: HKD) is the official currency of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China. The Basic Law of Hong Kong and the Sino-British Joint Declaration provides that Hong Kong retains full autonomy with respect to currency issuance. Currency in Hong Kong is issued by the Government and three local banks under the supervision of the territory's de facto central bank, the Hong Kong Monetary Authority. Bank notes are printed by Hong Kong Note Printing Limited. The most commonly used symbol for the Hong Kong dollar is the dollar sign ($). ...more on Wikipedia about "Hong Kong dollar"
prints the bank notes of all the three note-issuing banks in Hong Kong. ...more on Wikipedia about "Hong Kong Note Printing Limited"
Japanese Military Yen ( Chinese and Japanese: 日本軍用手票) , abbreviated as JMY, was the currency issued to Japanese soldiers as salary. The Japanese Imperial Government first started issuing JMY during the Russo-Japanese War in 1904. The JMY reached its peak during the Pacific War period, where the Japanese Government excessively issued to all of its occupied territories. During the war, not only was the JMY used in the military, it was also forced upon the local population as the official currency of the occupied territory. Since the JMY was not backed by gold, and did not have a specific place of issuance, the JMY could not be exchanged for Japanese Yen. Forcing the local population to use the JMY officially was one of the ways the Japanese Government could dominate the local economy. ...more on Wikipedia about "Japanese Military Yen"
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