First there were commemorative watches, then there were commemorative bottles of beer – called Red Dawn. Now the Bank of England has joined the crush to make a buck out of Hong Kong’s handover to China by printing special £5 notes.
The handover is big business and the Old Lady of Threadneedle Street hasn’t missed a trick. She has reconfigured her presses for the first time in 303 years to produce 500,000 fivers with the serial number prefix HK97.
These items are being sold in Asia by Singapore-based MoneyWorld at US$18 each.
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