Evidence coverage: 1863–1866. This is the span of collected observations, not the currency’s lifetime.
This record includes associated currencies and earlier interpretations. The article selects the evidence relevant to its own history.
No distinct successor currency is established in the loaded view.
Dated changes of monetary basis; founding ancestry remains above.
Hong Kong instituted a sterling anchor in 1935. Postwar tables document its continuation and 1967 parity change before the switch to USD.
1935 introduction; postwar evidence 1946–1972
Initially 16 HKD per GBP; 14.55 from 23 November 1967.
Exchange Fund and certificates backing banknote issue; postwar official parity regime.
Wartime operation and the exact pre-1972 break following sterling flotation are not fully resolved; do not read the outer dates as uninterrupted daily convertibility.
The recorded episode ends at the stated boundary. Excluded from ancestry, sibling relationships and depth.
Evidence and relationship details Register entry →Hong Kong fixed its dollar to USD in July 1972, changed the parity in February 1973, and ended the commitment when it floated in November 1974.
6 July 1972 – 26 November 1974
5.65 HKD per USD initially; 5.085 from 14 February 1973.
Government undertaking to maintain the specified exchange rate.
Separate from the 1983 currency-board episode. No dollar anchor is drawn across the floating interval.
The recorded episode ends at the stated boundary. Excluded from ancestry, sibling relationships and depth.
Evidence and relationship details Register entry →Hong Kong restored a USD link through its currency-board system in 1983; the inspected later description specifies a 7.75–7.85 exchange band.
17 October 1983; confirmed in the 2024 description
1983 linked rate: 7.80 HKD per USD; later observed band: 7.75–7.85.
Currency-board note-issue mechanism and operational exchange band.
End not established in this review. The later band is not backdated to 1983.
No ending established here; this is not a claim of current operation. Excluded from ancestry, sibling relationships and depth.
Evidence and relationship details Register entry →Hong Kong’s local silver-dollar issue developed from circulating Spanish and Mexican silver dollars. One traced standard input; the 1935 sterling link is not its origin.
C954, C1655Hong Kong’s local silver-dollar issue developed from circulating Spanish and Mexican silver dollars. One traced standard input; the 1935 sterling link is not its origin. The retained evidence establishes a metal or valuation standard, not succession of the principal unit of account. Keep it as profile context; exclude it from ancestry traversal.
Sources and qualifications →Includes dated issues, standards, subdivisions and institutional changes. Each event retains the source's date qualifications.
Hong Kong’s museum records foreign coins in 1841, local coins in 1863, and the 1935 local-unit declaration.
C119Hong Kong’s museum records foreign coins in 1841, local coins in 1863, and the 1935 local-unit declaration.
C119HKMA dates the Linked Exchange Rate System to 17 October 1983 and describes today’s 7.75–7.85 HKD per USD band.
C121Hong Kong’s local silver-dollar issue developed from circulating Spanish and Mexican silver dollars. One traced standard input; the 1935 sterling link is not its origin.
C954Mexican dollars were another input to Hong Kong’s local silver-dollar standard.
C955Dated observations, not a proven complete lifespan.
Hong Kong’s museum records foreign coins in 1841, local coins in 1863, and the 1935 local-unit declaration.
Historical overview
Historical publication; not a current denomination list.
Occupation narrative does not prove every transaction used military notes.
The museum describes Japanese military notes during occupation and resumption of local currency afterwards.
Occupation paragraph
Historical publication; not a current denomination list.
Occupation narrative does not prove every transaction used military notes.
HKMA dates the Linked Exchange Rate System to 17 October 1983 and describes today’s 7.75–7.85 HKD per USD band.
Opening paragraph
Current band is not retroactively imposed on 1983.
AMCM’s 2010 review reports a fixed middle rate of 1.03 patacas per Hong Kong dollar.
Printed pp. 37–38
Historical 1.03 peg observation; exact inception and all subsequent legal amendments not inferred.
HKMA distinguishes coins dated 1863 from their 1864 arrival and notes the mint’s closure in 1868.
PDF p. 2 / printed p. 19
1863 coin date and 1864 arrival differ; a gap in dollar coins does not end the HKD currency.
Hong Kong’s local silver-dollar issue developed from circulating Spanish and Mexican silver dollars. One traced standard input; the 1935 sterling link is not its origin.
PDF pp. 2 and 4: silver-dollar basis, local 1866 issue and 1935 currency reform
Mexican dollars were another input to Hong Kong’s local silver-dollar standard.
PDF pp. 2 and 4: silver-dollar basis, local 1866 issue and 1935 currency reform
Hong Kong law converted specified public sterling payments into dollar payments at 4s2d per dollar from 16 February 1864. Assignment to the later distinct Hong Kong dollar is a qualified regional-continuity inference. This is a public-account contribution, not its sole founding ancestry.
Section 1; preamble; Governor proclamation; 1890 edition vol.1 pp.572–575
Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.
Full official-law transcription inspected; OCR imperfections do not affect currency/conversion provisions.
Hong Kong’s locally issued dollar system developed within accounting legally denominated by reference to the Mexican dollar; the 1864 law makes local cents and mils fractions of that dollar and converts public sterling obligations into it. Qualified local differentiation; compresses development into a territorial unit. No exact date of separate currency identity is inferred from the first local coin issue. Supersedes standard-only treatment of the existing MXN reference, rather than adding duplicate edge.
Section 1; preamble; Governor proclamation; 1890 edition vol.1 pp.572–575
Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.
Full official-law transcription inspected; OCR imperfections do not affect currency/conversion provisions.
Hong Kong’s local silver-dollar issue developed from circulating Spanish and Mexican silver dollars. One traced standard input; the 1935 sterling link is not its origin.
; retained source evidence behind C954
Hong Kong instituted a sterling anchor in 1935. Postwar tables document its continuation and 1967 parity change before the switch to USD.
Printed pp.7 and 9; PDF indices 3 and 5
Part A, dated entries 18 December 1946 through 17 October 1983
Cross-rates in the table do not create additional anchors. 1946 is a witnessed postwar regime, not its original founding.
Hong Kong fixed its dollar to USD in July 1972, changed the parity in February 1973, and ended the commitment when it floated in November 1974.
Part A, dated entries 18 December 1946 through 17 October 1983
Cross-rates in the table do not create additional anchors. 1946 is a witnessed postwar regime, not its original founding.
Hong Kong restored a USD link through its currency-board system in 1983; the inspected later description specifies a 7.75–7.85 exchange band.
Part A, dated entries 18 December 1946 through 17 October 1983
Cross-rates in the table do not create additional anchors. 1946 is a witnessed postwar regime, not its original founding.
Opening paragraph; page last revised 27 June 2024
Current band is not retroactively imposed on 1983.