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That's true. It's a zoological garden.

For those who are not residing in Singapore, they may think that the birds in the Singapore bird series are common to Singapore in the wild. Not entirely true. The tern depicted on the $1 is not so common as these are migrating birds. Usually found in coastal areas stretching from China to Australia. I have yet to see one in Singapore. As for the sharma ($50), bulbul ($5), these are song birds kept by Singaporean. They are not in the wild. The $20 sunbird is a common bird in Singapore. The female are greenish yellow while the male ones with purple throated. I once caught a male bird. After studying it for 2 days and fed with honey, I released it. There are a number of species of kingfisher found in Singapore. The $10 white collar kingfisher is a common bird in Singapore. They have distinctive calls. Even if you don't see them, you can hear them. You can find them easily in places where there are water. As for the $100 bee eater, I have yet to see one. Maybe I did not search hard enough. Here is a photo of the colourful blue tailed bee eater spotted and photographed in Changi by Charlie.

Singapore Bird Series

Good choice of notes but they are expensive especially those $5 from 1925 to 1930 series and not easy to find them in high grades (AUNC-UNC). In my 23 years of banknote collecting, I only spotted three of them for sales in the late 1980s. I purchase one of them for my collection.

Malaya and British Borneo 1959 $1 Near Solid 505555

MMMM - They are beautiful. Quite refreshing to see such colourful notes.

Here is purple one from 1930.

Wow...so many ....keep coming...

Let's start contributing on banknotes with animals. Other than MMMM who specializes on animals, I am sure we do have banknotes with animals in our collection. MMMM, your specialized collection, keep the ball rolling.

Malaysia 6th Series $1 and $50

There is one in ebay. http://cgi.ebay.com/Hong-Kong-Mercantile-B...=item563b99e841

That's an interesting topic.

What a waste. There were also such cases of banks being taken over by other bigger banks in Singapore. Their names disappeared.

HSBC is a private bank. It is one of the largest bank in the world. It has it's presence in every country. In Hong Kong, there are three private bank that issue HK banknotes. Bank of China (BOC), Chartered Bank and HSBC. In addition, the Hong Kong government (SAR) also issue HK banknotes. Currently, the HK government only issued the $10 notes. It can be quite confusing for HK people who have four different design of banknotes of $10 note. But I think they are used to the so many types of HK banknotes being circulated. It used to have another private bank - Merchantile Bank, issuing HK banknotes. I am not sure what happen to the bank.

Mine too.

Hong Kong HSBC 1975 $5 Solid 555555. 1975 is the last issued year for this old style HSBC series. A difficult solid to acquire as there are not many solid number collectors during that time. Uncirculated with one counting mark, one light yellow spot and one brown stain ( seems like a brown ink stain used to print the design ). Bought this to match my HK HSBC 1966 $10 solid 555555 note from the same series. Enjoy the pictures.

Nice serial number.

Saor Alba - Thanks for the information.

keeping collecting

Sorry, did not get what you meant. I too have both the 1 and 5 pounds for this series but with solid serials.

Oops...After looking at the serial number again, I didn't realised that it is more of a radar than a repeater due to it's 5 digits serial number.

Straits Settlements 1930 $1 Fancy Number Repeater 27272 This is my worst condition note in my Straits Settlements Collection but it is also the nicest serial number among all the SS notes. Extremely difficult to find nice fancy numbers such as repeater, radar, solids for any Straits Settlements notes. Nobody collect fancy numbers during the early days in this region.

Wow...Dave...I love it. Beautiful note and beautiful solid 666. Congrats on your good find. My French and French printed notes 333, 030 and 005 should be on the way. Also waiting for 1975 HK HSBC solid 555555 on a $5. Pretty scarce solid.