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The very first coin issued in Hong Kong during Queen Victoria's reign had a face value of 1 mil, or 0.1 (S$0.017) Hong Kong cent, an amount that was enough to buy a bowl of porridge or a piece of bread in 1863. That coin would be worth about HK$1,000 today, about a million times more than the face value.