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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Troodon, post: 458620, member: 4626&quot;]<a href="http://www.banknotebank.com/coin_view_enlarge.aspx?id=922384" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.banknotebank.com/coin_view_enlarge.aspx?id=922384" rel="nofollow">Hong Kong, 1000 dollars, 2003</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Got this beauty in the mail today... most I ever spent on a single banknote, but it was worth it!&nbsp; Love the dragon on the obverse (he seems in such a good mood, doesn&#039;t he?&nbsp; Got to love his attitude!).&nbsp; The scenery of 2003 Hong Kong on the reverse is great too.</p><p><br /></p><p>Eventually hope to get the 500 note to finish off my set of SCB&#039;s 2003 series.&nbsp; But I figured if have to spend a lot on the last two, that I should get this one first lol...</p><p><br /></p><p>The SCB series has had a different animal from Chinese mythology on the obverse of their notes for quite some time... a nice feauture of their most recent series is the reverse shows a scene of Hong Kong from various time periods:</p><p><br /></p><p>$20: 1850</p><p>$50: 1890</p><p>$100: 1930</p><p>$500: 1970</p><p>$1000: 2003</p><p><br /></p><p>Makes the series as a whole a fun thing to look at.</p><p><br /></p><p>World note album is getting a bit full... thinking of starting a new album, just for the dragon notes (ones I have in my banknotebank collection as the &quot;Dragon Collection&quot;... I seek banknotes with dragons on them especially!).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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