Hong Kong dollar

The Hong Kong dollar (, sign: HK

; code: HKD) is the official currency of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. It is subdivided into 100 cents or 1000 mils. The Hong Kong Monetary Authority is the monetary authority of Hong Kong and the Hong Kong dollar. Three commercial banks are licensed by the Hong Kong Monetary Authority to issue their own banknotes for general circulation in Hong Kong. These banks, HSBC, Bank of China, and Standard Chartered, issue their own designs of banknotes in denominations of HK

20, HK

50, HK

100, HK

150, HK

500, and HK

1000, with all designs being similar to one another in the same denomination of banknote. However, the HK

10 banknote and all coins are issued by the Government of Hong Kong. As of April 2019, the Hong Kong dollar was the ninth most traded currency in the world. Hong Kong uses a linked exchange rate system, trading since May 2005 in the range US

1:HK

7.75–7.85. United States dollar wins against the Hong Kong dollar when it trades at HK

7.75 per U.S. dollar. Hong Kong dollar wins against the U.S. dollar when it trades at HK

7.85 per U.S. dollar. Apart from its use in Hong Kong, the Hong Kong dollar is also used in neighbouring Macau. It is pegged at 1 Hong Kong dollar to 1.03 Macanese patacas, and is generally accepted at par or MOP 1.00 for retail purchases. When Hong Kong was established as a free trading port in 1841, there was no local currency in everyday circulation. Foreign currencies such as Indian rupees, Spanish or Mexican 8 reales, and Chinese cash coins circulated. Since 1825, it had been the policy of the British government to introduce sterling silver coinage to all of its colonies, and to this end, in 1845 the Spanish or Mexican 8 reales coins were set at a legal tender value of 4 shillings, 2 pence sterling (50 pence).

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