Are these 1997 HK dollar bills worth keeping?

[felix]

I was going through my box of collectibles, when I came across an envelope with older money inside. Among them were these Hong Kong dollar bills .. I guess someone gave them to me to keep since they were issued in 1997 (year of the hand over). I'm wondering, are they worth keeping at all? Or should I just exchange them for cash at the local HSBC?



http://img193.exs.cx/img193/4483/hkdollars3xz.jpg

[Degenerate]

worthless...throw them in your trash

where do you live? :cheesygri

I'd keep them.

[thezone]

keep em they aren't worth that much after you exchange the money so keep it for memories sake and maybe the value of it will go up 20 years from now

[simms]

I'd keep em or give them to me ;)

BOC is a currency..?? I thought it was just a bank like TD or CIBC.

That's like TD having TD money that's official Canadian currency..

[cheukiecfu]

it even says July 1st....
not just 1997..

[goob3r]

I'd keep em or give them to me ;)

BOC is a currency..?? I thought it was just a bank like TD or CIBC.

That's like TD having TD money that's official Canadian currency..

I never knew the HK bills were issued by HSBC, so a commercial bank controls the money?

[NDman]

Save it for your grandchild's grandchild

[tkl]

I never knew the HK bills were issued by HSBC, so a commercial bank controls the money?

HSBC and Standard Bank both authorized to issue HK bills.

[Neb]

Keep them, might wroth something in many many years.. then u can ebay them off as a set for lot of money

[crimsona]

I never knew the HK bills were issued by HSBC, so a commercial bank controls the money?

the Bank of China is also authorized to print bills.

Effectively, you can have 3-4 variations of a single $100 bill

And btw, those bills are worth nothing above the face value.

The bill is creased, the serial number is nothing special - no real collector will pay anything for it (like I said, above face value)

[ChinpokoMon]

I never knew the HK bills were issued by HSBC, so a commercial bank controls the money?

The three note-issuing banks in Hong Kong (HSBC, Standard Chartered, and Bank of China) are under the jurisdiction of the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (http://www.info.gov.hk/hkma/index.htm) when it comes to printing money.

[nx2k]

i swear hong kong makes one of the worse designs for currency, they're freakin huge, have you seen the size of people's wallets just to be able to contain their bills entirely...talk about a fashion no-no

[UrbanPoet]

worthless... what is that... $190 HKD?
tade it in for the $40Canadian dollars it worth and buy a wholesale lot of my flashlights =D

[simms]

Holy crap! Are you serious, that BOC, SB, and HSBC actually print money? So you can have like 3 $100 HK bills? Reminds me of the Euro and how one side can have a country specific emblem...

But still, that's pretty nuts.

[Sgt_Strider]

Holy crap! Are you serious, that BOC, SB, and HSBC actually print money? So you can have like 3 $100 HK bills? Reminds me of the Euro and how one side can have a country specific emblem...

But still, that's pretty nuts.

There's a lot of crazy stuff in this world ;).

[p51dray]

Nah, keep them. You can only get ~30 bucks off them anyways cuz the dollar is so high now. Show them to your kids some day LOL.

[UrbanPoet]

they arent that neat anyways. :| just trade it in for the $30 and take your girl out to the movies or something.

[chickenbones]

they arent that neat anyways. :| just trade it in for the $30 and take your girl out to the movies or something.


What are you talking about, the first three bills look so nice! I love the design of the bills. Looks so....."rich".