The new edition 10 yuan banknotes: purple with blue, with new anti-counterfeiting measures. The banknotes are signed by Financial Secretary John Tsang and Chief Executive Joseph Yam of HKMA.

10 yuan coin: round, outer ring with white nickel alloy and brass alloy center.

At first, the Hong Kong dollar was pegged to the British pound, but after the war, Britain's economic strength weakened and once depreciated sharply, affecting Hong Kong's economy. After the pound floated freely 1972 in June, the Hong Kong government changed its peg to the US dollar. The initial exchange rate was HK$ 5.65 to US$ 65,438 +0. 1 February, 973, changed to HK$ 5.0851USD. Since June 1974 1 1, it has been changed to free floating. Until 1983, the crisis of confidence in Hong Kong's future led to a sharp drop in the exchange rate of the Hong Kong dollar, and once fell to 9.6 Hong Kong dollars 1 US dollar in September of the same year. In June 65438+1 October 65438+July of the same year, then Financial Secretary Peng Lizhi announced that the exchange rate of the Hong Kong dollar was pegged to the US dollar, and it was set at HK$ 7.801US dollar, which has been maintained ever since.