This converted to GBP £ 1, 687, 837 at the time In 2012, the capital is worth around SEK 3. 1 billion ( USD 472 million, EUR 337 million ), which is almost twice the amount of the initial capital, taking inflation into account.

In 2011, this means surviving on the equivalent to US $ 1. 50, A $ 2 or £ 1 per day.

The company was resold, following a further bankruptcy event, by the Receiver in 1975 to North American businessmen Peter Sprague and George Minden for £ 1. 05 million.

The acquiring price was US $ 1. 75 billion or £ 935 million, with US $ 170 million of debt.

No public funds were available, and the credit of William III's government was so low in London that it was impossible for it to borrow the £ 1, 200, 000 ( at 8 per cent ) that the government wanted.

The £ 1. 2m was raised in 12 days ; half of this was used to rebuild the Navy.

He proposed a loan of £ 1. 2m to the government ; in return the subscribers would be incorporated as The Governor and Company of the Bank of England with long-term banking privileges including the issue of notes.

In 1977, the Bank set up a wholly owned subsidiary called Bank of England Nominees Limited ( BOEN ), a private limited company, with two of its hundred £ 1 shares issued.

In the 18th and 19th centuries White Notes were issued in £ 1 and £ 2 denominations.

At the start of the First World War, the Currency and Bank Notes Act 1914 was passed which granted temporary powers to HM Treasury for issuing banknotes to the value of £ 1 and 10 /- ( ten shillings ) in the UK.

Additional awards were presented to the British fleet: Nelson was awarded £ 2, 000 (£ as of ) a year for life by the Parliament of Great Britain and £ 1, 000 per annum by the Parliament of Ireland, although the latter was inadvertently discontinued after the Act of Union dissolved the Irish Parliament.

The price rose to £ 1. 25 per issue.

The anniversary was also celebrated with a 40-page issue ( instead of 32 pages ; the 60th birthday issue also had extra pages, 48 instead of 24 ) guest edited by Wallace and Gromit creator Nick Park, price £ 1. 50 ( not 99p ) and an issue of Classics from the Comics devoted to the Beano.

A 2011 donation of £ 1 million enabled the museum to acquire a complete set of Pablo Picasso's Vollard Suite.

With Al-Fayed selling his Harrods department store for £ 1. 5 billion it is reasonable to presume that some of this money which has kick-started this larger scale plan into life.

It is the most popular cheese in the United Kingdom, accounting for 51 percent of the country's £ 1. 9 billion annual cheese market, and the second most popular cheese in the United States, behind mozzarella, with an average annual consumption of per capita.

In 1982, Chelsea were, at the nadir of their fortunes, acquired by Ken Bates for the nominal sum of £ 1, although by now the Stamford Bridge freehold had been sold to property developers, meaning the club faced losing their home.

Its first stock offering in 1613-1616 raised £ 418, 000, and its first offering in 1617-1622 raised £ 1. 6 million.

In December the government announced that it intended to triple the licence fee from £ 1 to £ 3 a month, from 1 January 1852.

Any breach of these laws is a criminal offence and can lead to fine of up to £ 5, 000 or six months in prison.

* 1963 – Great Train Robbery: in England, a gang of 15 train robbers steal £ 2. 6 million in bank notes.

< li > In November 2010, an Apple I with serial number 82 sold for £ 133, 250 ($ 210, 000 ) at Christie's auction house in London.

The British were able to annex Sind and for his services, Hasan Ali Shah received an annual pension of £ 2, 000 from General Charles Napier, the British conqueror of Sind with whom he had a good relationship.

* In mid-2009, Fleming was commemorated on a new series of banknotes issued by the Clydesdale Bank ; his image appears on the new issue of £ 5 notes.

He also donated £ 50, 000 to help set up the University of Birmingham in 1899.

The Trust was funded by a gift of $ 10 million ( a then unprecedented sum: at the time, total government assistance to all four Scottish universities was about £ 50, 000 a year ) and its aim was to improve and extend the opportunities for scientific research in the Scottish universities and to enable the deserving and qualified youth of Scotland to attend a university.

Elizabeth Branwell left a £ 350 legacy for each of her nieces.

In 1907 the Australian Government awarded McCormick £ 100 for his composition.

* 1667 – The blind and impoverished John Milton sells the copyright of Paradise Lost for £ 10.

On 12 March 2007, it was purchased for £ 479 million by a joint venture company, headed by David Richards, John Singers, an American investment banker ; and two Kuwaiti investment companies, Investment Dar and Adeem Investment.

A successful turn-around strategy led to the recruitment of 360 new employees and, by 1977, a trading profit of £ 750, 000.

Gauntlett bought a 12. 5 % stake in Aston Martin for £ 500, 000 via Pace Petroleum in 1980, with Tim Hearley of CH Industrials taking a similar share.

The deal valued Aston Martin / AML at £ 2 million, the year it built its 10, 000th car.

In 1988, having produced some 5, 000 cars in 20 years, a revived economy and successful sales of limited edition Vantage, and 52 Volante Zagato coupes at £ 86, 000 each ; the company finally retired the ancient V8 and introduced the Virage range — the first new Aston launched in 20 years.

In January 2009 Aon was fined £ 5. 25 million in the UK after it made more than $ 7 million worth of " suspicious " payments to overseas firms and individuals.

In 2004, Winchester Cathedral received £ 86, 000 from the Highways Agency in compensation for increased traffic noise from the M3.

The 1885 – 86 season was the birth of the legal professional footballer, and Blackburn Rovers spent £ 615 on player wages for the season.

A further meeting in mid October reported that the cost was now £ 60, 000, and that 86 people had subscibed to it.

In 1900, during the Boer War, army expenditure was £ 86. 8m, by 1910 ( a low point, after four years of cuts under the Liberals ) it had dropped to £ 27. 6m and by 1914 it had risen back to £ 29. 4m.

According to The Daily Telegraph, the minister claimed a total of £ 86, 277 over four years in additional costs allowance – close to the total allowed under Parliament's green book.

Key sources of income included £ 39. 58 million from Funding Council grants ( 2008 / 09 – £ 39. 52 million ), £ 116. 91 million from tuition fees and education contracts ( 2008 / 09 – £ 104. 39 million ), £ 7. 86 million from research grants and contracts ( 2008 / 09 – £ 9. 29 million ), £ 1. 04 from endowment and investment income ( 2008 / 09 – £ 1. 83 million ) and £ 15. 05 million from other income ( 2008 / 09 – £ 19. 37 million ).

He made an estimate of £ 72, 217 for construction of the canal, which he increased to £ 86, 132 in May 1812, when he re-surveyed the route and part of it was changed.

In a document published in May 2010 at the time of the Queen's Speech, the new Government announced that the scrapping of the scheme would save approximately £ 86 million over the following 4 years, and avoid a further £ 800 million in maintenance costs over the decade which were to have been recovered through fees.

In 1989 Latour was purchased by Allied Lyons for around £ 110 million, but in 1993 returned to French ownership when bought by businessman François Pinault for £ 86 million when it became part of his holding company Groupe Artemis.