Hong Kong Dollar to Brunei dollar — exchange rate

The Hong Kong dollar (symbol: HK$, codes: HKD and 344) is a monetary unit used only in one district in the People’s Republic of China – Hong Kong. The HKD abbreviation is commonly used on the foreign exchange market. The Hong Kong dollar is divided into cents.

One HKD has 100 cents. The $ currency was first issued in 1895. The coins of that time were made out of pure silver. The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region is “its own country within another government” in some way. Just like the other large city of PRC – Macao, Hong Kong not only has its own currency, but also lives by its own law.

The Brunei dollar (B$) is the national currency of Brunei. The banknotes have replaced the Malaya and the British dollar. The BND abbreviation is used for easier currency conversion, conversion both on the domestic and international markets $ banknotes can be changed for cents.

One Brunei dollar is subdivided into 100 cents. The Brunei dollar was issued in 1967. In 1979, and later in 1989, the government printed banknotes of bigger denomination due to inflation. The first Brunei currency was cowrie - colorful shells of sea mollusks that live in local waters. It is worth mentioning that cowrie was used not only in Brunei, but in other countries as well, such as China, Guinea, and the Philippines.