Britain's £1m and £100m banknotes

25 Jan 2013
Last updated during 21:09 ET

By Chris Bowlby
BBC Radio 4

Carefully rhythmical in a Bank of England’s vaults are a tiny series of really vast banknotes. Called “giants” and “titans”, they are not in dissemination for good reason – any is value a sum of income many of us can usually dream of. What are they for?

“When it comes to a £1m note, everybody thinks, ‘What a illusory thing’,” says Barnaby Faull, conduct of a banknote dialect during a auctioneers

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