Hong Kong dollar
Hong Kong dollar: a currency still in use.
- Dates in use
- Still in use; introduction date not established here
- Currency code
- HKD
- Ancestry branch
- Spanish real / peso
Its place in the family
All ancestors and descendants ↗Parents 2
Hong Kong dollar
This currencyChildren 0
No successor is established here.
Trace its ancestry backward
Hong Kong dollar
1 later contribution joined this currency. See those connections →
Mexican peso
Spanish real / peso de a ocho
Castilian maravedí / real de vellón accounting
Earlier ancestry is not established here.
1 later contribution joined this currency. See those connections →
The story
Hong Kong’s museum records foreign coins in 1841, local coins in 1863, and the 1935 local-unit declaration. [1]
The museum describes Japanese military notes during occupation and resumption of local currency afterwards. [2]
HKMA dates the Linked Exchange Rate System to 17 October 1983 and describes today’s 7.75–7.85 HKD per USD band. [3]
Changing monetary anchors
Pound sterling · 1935 introduction; postwar evidence 1946–1972
Initially 16 HKD per GBP; 14.55 from 23 November 1967. Terms and evidence ↗
United States dollar · 6 July 1972 – 26 November 1974
5.65 HKD per USD initially; 5.085 from 14 February 1973. Terms and evidence ↗
United States dollar · 17 October 1983; confirmed in the 2024 description
1983 linked rate: 7.80 HKD per USD; later observed band: 7.75–7.85. Terms and evidence ↗
Sources and evidence
- Hong Kong Museum of History (1993) · Hong Kong Currency C119 ↗
- Hong Kong Museum of History (1993) · Hong Kong Currency C120 ↗
- Hong Kong Monetary Authority · Linked Exchange Rate System C121 ↗
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“Hong Kong dollar.” The Family Tree of Money. © Field Technologies, Inc. Reader edition 2026-10-13; research dataset v44. https://familytreeofmoney.org/currency/T-FTM000464.html