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.

A £ 2 coin showing the head of Elizabeth II

In February 2006 the coin was bought by the British Museum for £ 357, 832 with the help of funding from the National Heritage Memorial Fund and The British Museum Friends making it the most expensive British coin purchased until then, though the price was exceeded the following July by the third-known example of a Double Leopard.

The current value of the coin in " very fine " to " extremely fine " condition is £ 3500 to £ 6000 as the pieces are very rare, but normally fairly unworn, although a Mr Pinkerton, writing at the time that the coins circulated, noted that many of the coins in circulation were so worn as to be almost flat.

The latter coin was sold at auction in July 2006 for a record price for a British coin, of £ 460, 000.

The coin also differed from other British coinage at the time ( bar the more recent £ 2 coin ) in that the year of mintage is displayed on the reverse ( the opposite side to the Queen's head ).

In August 2005 the Royal Mint launched a competition to find new reverse designs for all circulating coins except the relatively new £ 2 coin.

The shield in its entirety is featured on the £ 1 coin.

Following publicity about the coins they were initially traded on eBay for several thousand pounds, although an eBay spokesman was unable to confirm if an accepted winning bid of £ 7, 100 for one coin had actually been transacted.

The current reverse of the coin was designed by Matthew Dent who in April 2008 won a Royal Mint competition to redesign the reverses of all circulating coins ( except the £ 2 coin ).

In August 2005 the Royal Mint launched a competition to find new reverse designs for all circulating coins except the £ 2 coin.

The shield in its entirety is featured on the £ 1 coin.

In August 2005 the Royal Mint launched a competition to find new reverse designs for all circulating coins apart from the £ 2 coin.

The shield in its entirety is featured on the £ 1 coin.

The shield in its entirety is featured on the £ 1 coin.

After a review of the United Kingdom coinage, it was decided that a general-circulation £ 2 coin was needed, and a new bi-metallic design was issued on 15 June 1998 ( dated 1997 ).

The value of the composition metals in a £ 1 coin amount to approximately 4. 18 UK pence or 6. 44 US cents as of 7 January 2012.

Uniquely amongst modern British coinage, the £ 1 coin has a mint mark: a small crosslet found on the milled edge that represents Llantrisant in South Wales, where the Royal Mint has been based since 1968.

In August 2005 the Royal Mint launched a competition to find new reverse designs for all circulating coins apart from the £ 2 coin.

The new £ 1 coin design features the shield in its entirety, representing the UK as a whole.

Since 1987 an illustration of the castle has featured on the reverse side of £ 100 notes issued by the Royal Bank of Scotland.

However, the lack of a large temporary exhibition space has led to the £ 100 million World Conservation and Exhibition Centre to provide one and to concentrate all the Museum's conservation facilities into one Conservation Centre.

In contract, Mary is entitled to an item worth £ 500, but she has only one worth £ 50.

The five top European leagues – the Premier League ( England ), La Liga ( Spain ), Serie A ( Italy ), the Bundesliga ( Germany ) and Ligue 1 ( France ) – attract most of the world's best players and each of the leagues has a total wage cost in excess of £ 600 million /€ 763 million / US $ 1. 185 billion.

Up to 2012 just over £ 1, 275, 000 has been collected for more than 500 good causes.

It has been estimated that his destruction of hotel toilets and plumbing ran as high as UK £ 300, 000 ( US $ 500, 000 ).

Liverpool has been described as a global brand ; a 2010 report valued the club's trademarks and associated intellectual property at £ 141m, an increase of £ 5m on the previous year.

GAME has a reward card scheme for which every pound spent a customer is rewarded 10 points ; for every 1000 points that one collects, one gets £ 2. 50 to redeem in the store, or online.

Manchester United has been described as a global brand ; a 2011 report by Brand Finance, valued the club's trademarks and associated intellectual property at £ 412 million – an increase of £ 39 million on the previous year, valuing it at £ 11 million more than the second best brand, Real Madrid – and gave the brand a strength rating of AAA ( Extremely Strong ).

Manchester United has also consistently enjoyed the highest commercial income of any English club ; in 2005 – 06, the club's commercial arm generated £ 51 million, compared to £ 42. 5 million at Chelsea, £ 39. 3 million at Liverpool, £ 34 million at Arsenal and £ 27. 9 million at Newcastle United.

Al-Fayed has invested more than £ 20 million in the estate, restored the 14th century pink Balnagowan castle, and created a tourist accommodation business.

The meaning of Dromio ’ s line has not been satisfactorily explained by critics, but Oxfordians say the line is somehow connected to the fact that de Vere was given a £ 1, 000 annuity by the Queen, later continued by King James.

This has meant significant numbers of locals cannot afford to buy property of their own now, with prices often well over 10 times the average salary of around £ 15, 000.

The historian David Boyle has estimated this sum as being equivalent to around £ 2 bn at 2011 prices.

When the Clydesdale Bank discontinued £ 1 banknotes, Robert The Bruce's portrait was moved onto the bank's £ 20 banknote in 1990 and it has remained there to date.