# What does a hundred million pound note look like?

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2017/04/17/what-does-a-hundred-million-pound-note-look-like/
- Published: 2017-04-17T10:18:15+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

**Here’s a treat for a Bank Holiday Monday – a £100 million note. And it is genuine.**

That’s the good news. The bad news is that you’re very unlikely to see it as it 
is kept permanently within the vaults of the Bank of England.

## Cash of the Titan

The note is a Titan. Its role is to underpin the value of standard bank notes issued
by commercial banks in Scotland and Northern Ireland. These banks deposit an equivalent
amount in sterling with the Bank of England for each of their own notes that they
prints. As a result, were any of the banks to collapse, the value of their banknotes
would be retained, guaranteed by the Bank of England.

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To maintain security **Titans** and their £1 million cousin **Giants** are printed
internally, rather than being printed by an external company.

Want to see more?

 [⌊'Titan' note, held in the BoE vaults, worth £100 million⌉](https://www.flickr.com/photos/bankofengland/albums/72157640347497784)

 _Main image: [‘Titan’ note, held in the BoE vaults, worth £100 million by Bank of England on Flickr.com](https://www.flickr.com/photos/bankofengland/32459889006/in/dateposted/)_

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