THE REAL KING'S SPEECH

This note is a one dollar note from the Hong Kong issue of 1949, it features King George VI on the front with bilingual writing on both sides.

George VI (sixth) was the inspiration for the film "The King's Speech".

A HONG KONG MODERNIST DESIGN

This polymer note from Hong Kong is the 2007 10 dollar note. its design is a very "modernist" design with lots of swirling ribbons and the reverse has a geometric design that is reminiscent of a celtic knot. I'm not a big fan of "modern art"   and although I like the colours there are too many things going on to like this note!!

ORGANISING YOUR COLLECTION

There are loads of way to organise your collection of banknotes. most will depend on why you are collecting. I organise my one by country a-z but you could use subject or denomination for instance.

By subject could be :

ANIMALS

the above are from Antarctica, Congo democratic republic and Belarus

or BIRDS

from Singapore, Suriname and Zambia

or Women on banknotes ( not very many of them)

from Slovakia, Luxembourg, Italy and The Czech Republic

but of course there is one woman who are on loads of notes. Bahamas, Bermuda, British Honduras, Cayman Islands, Canada, Jersey, New Zealand, Australia, St Helena, Hong Kong, Gibraltar, jersey, Fiji, Falkland islands, Eastern Caribbean States, and of course Great Britain all have Queen Elizabeth II on their notes:

Other Possibles could be  Buildings, Revolutionaries , Presidents, Kings, Queens, Jobs or you could list them as you find them !!!

Finally you could list them by denomination;

Bolivars from Venezuela and Bolivia

Dollar from 30 countries from Australia to Zimbabwe

I think the rule here is that there are no rules 

HONG KONG

Hong Kong is a former British Colony which is now a special administrative region of China.The British  occupied Hong Kong in 1841. an agreement signed in 1984 gave Hong Kong back to the Chinese in 1997. under the "one country, two systems" Hong Kong has a certain amount of autonomy in most things except foreign and defense matters.

Monetary units: 1 Dollar = 100 cents

The Note above is the 10 dollar note from the Standard Chartered Bank, from 1991. It has a mythical carp on the front with the bank building and coat of arms on the reverse.

Similar to the British system of issuing notes, Hong Kong does not have a central bank but has a series of banks allowed to issue banknotes

The Note above is unusual in two ways, first it is a very small note (3 1/2 x 1 3/4 in , 90 x 42mm) and also it is Uniface, meaning that the reverse is blank. This note is from the 1981-86 issue .