Hong Kong Numismatic Collectors

Comment by Aidan Work on January 23, 2009 at 10:00pm

Ermin,I am a collector of banknotes,coins,& postal orders that were in circulation in the Colony of Hong Kong.

One day,I will be getting my banknotes,coins,& postal orders up,but only after I can get my computer's original power box rebuilt.

Aidan.

Comment by Krishna Kumar on January 24, 2009 at 2:32am

I want Exchange with Hong Kong Bank notes and coins,I can exchange UAE and some other Arab country's .....

Comment by Marc Bink on February 5, 2009 at 10:32pm

Hi Ermin, I had no idea that you collect this! I've got a fair bit of the older stuff from the seventies, when I used to live in S.E. Asia, and every once in a while I still pick up the odd piece. I like the older stuff, I've got a couple of Queen Vicky coins, I used to have a George 6 dollar bill, but that has gone missing...

I can't say I like the newer stuff I've seen; - it seems almost boring and doesn't have quite the appeal of the more traditional coins. Maybe I'll start a poll...

Comment by Aidan Work on February 5, 2009 at 10:41pm

Marc,
Some of the later colonial Hong Kong notes from 1994 until January 1997 are very hard to find.

I picked up a Bank of China 1994 $20 note in a postal auction a few months ago.

I've got 2 British postal orders that were issued in Hong Kong in 1986.Eventually,I will be posting up scans of those.

Aidan.

Comment by Ermin Chow on February 6, 2009 at 1:56pm

Hi Mark,
I enjoy collecting Hong Kong paper money and coins. I have a small collection so far. I still have a 1 dollar bill that is very worn out. I have many George V and George VI coins.

Comment by Marc Bink on February 6, 2009 at 2:55pm

Hi Ermin,
I used to have some Hong Kong spares, unfortunately they may have wound up in cigarette machines or parking meters, - they used to work on older machines. I'll check and see if I still have something and see if I can't bring it to the next meeting.
If you've got any spares of some of the George 5 and 6 I'd be interested; - I don't have any of those yet. I'd like to get at least one from every reign of each type issued;- after which I might go and try for dates.

Marc

Comment by Marc Bink on February 6, 2009 at 2:57pm

Aidan,

I can imagine some of the later colonial notes are hard to find. They probably found that towards the end of the colonial period that a lot of older notes came back out of hiding because people had no idea what the Chinese were going to do with the currency, so they probably had a glut of older notes. Were the mintage figures low too?

Comment by Aidan Work on February 6, 2009 at 3:07pm

Marc,
It is the colonial notes from 1981 to around 1992 that I found easy to get,as we see a lot of those over here.As for the later colonial notes,we almost never see them.

Any note that has the date of 1st. of July 1997 & later will never find a place in my collection,as they are not British Commonwealth issues.We do see a lot of the notes dated 2003 onwards over here,plus some of the H.K.S.A.R. Government's purple $10 notes as well.

Aidan.

Comment by Marc Bink on February 6, 2009 at 3:12pm

Aidan,

Are the older notes still legal tender? Or have they been "de-monetized"? Who issues them? Are they issued by the HSBC, or by the local government?

Marc

Comment by Aidan Work on February 6, 2009 at 3:21pm

The older notes are redeemable,but only at the bank that issued them.There are 3 chartered banks that issues notes - Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Corporation (H.S.B.C.),Bank of China,& the Standard Chartered Bank.

The H.K.S.A.R. Government also issues their own notes as well.

I reckon that collectors would be crazy to cash in the older colonial notes,especially the ones with the British Coat-of-Arms on them,unless they were damaged in one way or another.

Aidan.

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