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Rare £500 Bank of England note could fetch £24,000 at auction

A rare £500 note is expected to fetch up to £24,000 when it goes under the hammer at auction.

The note dates from October 1929 and is the only known surviving £500 note signed by Basil G Catterns, who was chief cashier of the Bank of between 1929 to 1934.

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