The Hong Kong Ten Cent coin issued during the reign of Queen Elizabeth II featured the Queens portrait by Cecil Thomas
on the obverse. The type II coin is an error coin because it was struck
without the security edge. The legend around the perimeter reads QUEEN ELIZABETH THE SECOND.
The reverse shows Chinese symbols of the denomination
, date and country. inside a ring of dots. Outside this is the legend HONG KONG TEN CENTS 1956.
Hong Kong was ceded to Great Britain, by China, in 1842, at the conclusion of the first Opium Wars. It was later in 1898,
that China handed a 99 year lease to Great Britain for Hong Kong. On 1st July, 1997, the former British colony was handed
back to the Peoples Republic of China.
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