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million numbered banknotes

Million Serial Banknotes exist to keep the accounts balanced.
A million number banknote is special as it has seven digits, handset,
normally they have six digits.
In the Britannia period most million serial notes were issued. 
Notes exist from earlier and later series but are not as common.
Most notes found are in a poor grade (condition).  Probably taken
down the pub and shown around a few times. 

     

      

        Bradbury one pound banknote of 1917.  Million numbered (seven digits normal is six)

      

        Britannia B271 Million serial banknote.

         Britannia Million Serial Banknotes

Cat  No Value  Prefixes seen
Mahon    
B210 10/-  
B212 £1  
Catterns    
B223 10/-  
B225 £1  
Peppiatt    
B235 10/-  
B236 10/-  
B238 £1 45Y  85Y.
B239 £1  
B249 blue £1 B26E. 
B251 mauve 10/- K77D 
B256 10/-  
B258 £1  
B260 £1 W56A  H36B. 
B262 10/-  
Beale    
B265 10/-  
B266 10/- K89Z  N80Z
B268 £1 J66B  M08B  U36C. E93J
O'Brien    
B271 10/- W78Y  O07Y  D27Y  B80Y.  A32Y 
B273 £1 S94J  Y77J  D10K  E90K.  R26K  S72J  T38J  T80K  Y17K 

How Were They Made?

A normal numbering barrel on the numbering machine has only six digits.

To overcome the need for seven digits on a million numbered note a sheet of 

notes would be specially printed with 100000 serials. Then a single '0' numeral would

be removed from a numbering barrel, inked up, and added by hand to each note in turn.

 The best note would be used, the remainder destroyed. 

 

      

        Peppiatt green Britannia Million serial banknote.

      

        Britannia B249 Million serial banknote.

Table of Other  Millions Serial  Banknotes

Cat No Value  Prefixes seen                                                                        
Bradbury    
T16 £1 A32  E94 
Fforde    
B305 £1 S38K  T37B.
Page    
B322                £1 CS08.  CS09  CS10  CS11  CS12  CW81  HX29
B326  £10 B20. 

 

       

         Modern £1 Page signature Million serial banknote.

       

          Modern £10 Page signature Million serial banknote.

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