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From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Currency Design Change to Begin: Hong Kong will begin replacing its coins and bank notes early next year to prepare for reversion to Chinese sovereignty in 1997, the government said. Coins and notes with designs acceptable to both the British and Chinese governments will be gradually introduced, the government said. The portrait of Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II will disappear from coins, replaced by a Bauhinia flower, which is a Hong Kong emblem.
