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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Notaphylic_C, post: 25601072, member: 130786&quot;]<b>Hong Kong:</b></p><p>Here is my favourite QEII note from the &quot;Government of Hong Kong.&quot;&nbsp; This new issue with the young queen were much more popular than the earlier series (or so I was told).</p><p><br /></p><p><b>P-324Aa</b> (1952) $1.00 printed by Bradbury &amp; Wilkinson:[ATTACH=full]1638577[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><b>PMG</b> lumps all the date/variations of the $1.00 as &quot;P-324A&quot; but some (&quot;b&quot; 1954/&amp; &quot;c&quot; 1955 dates with block letter prefixes) are tougher than others (I just wanted a fractional &quot;a&quot; prefix).&nbsp; The 1958/59 dates make up for over 60% of the notes one finds today (&amp; were relatively inexpensive for UNC).&nbsp; No other denominations were released.</p><p><br /></p><p>And here&#039;s <b>P-316</b> Government of Hong Kong $1.00 from her dad&#039;s series:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1638580[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>I have since learned, according to some collectors from that region, that many native citizens of Hong Kong, disliked the note (above) b/c they considered it &quot;ghostly&quot; or &quot;bad luck.&quot; They preferred the earlier purple version or the other banknotes (Mercantile, Hong Kong &amp; Shanghai, Chartered, etc).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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