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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Troodon, post: 556975, member: 4626&quot;]SCB&#039;s been putting a turtle dragon on their notes since about the 1980&#039;s.&nbsp; Considered to be a symbol of wealth and prosperity, it&#039;s a pretty fitting symbol for banknotes.&nbsp; He used to be on the $20 note but when the three banknote issuing companies in Hong Kong (Standard Chartered Bank, Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, and Bank of China) discontinued the $10 note, SCB dropped the chinze (temple dog) from the $20 note and promoted the carp and turtle-dragon up a denomination.&nbsp; The government of Hong Kong a few years ago tested out a $10 polymer note, which they still produce.</p><p><br /></p><p>I always think of Bowser from the Super Mario Brothers games whenever I see the turtle-dragon.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Dragons are extremely prominent in Chinese mythology and a lot of their mythological creatures incorporate draconic features.&nbsp; Pretty much every animal on SCB&#039;s series since the 1980&#039;s does, except for the phoenix.</p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s long been believed by the Chinese (probably some of them still do) that various species of lizards are actually dragons in an early stage of development.&nbsp; Chinese mythology holds that it takes a good 2500 to 3000 years for a dragon to reach full maturity after hatching... the final life stage the dragon actually develops wings (oddly though, they gain the ability to fly before they actually have wings... though description of such &quot;flight&quot; sounds more like gliding.&nbsp; That belief is likely the inspriation for dragon-shaped kites.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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