Bank of England £1,000,000 note, also referred to as Giant, is a non-circulating Bank of England sterling banknote used to back the value of Scottish and Northern Irish banknotes. Nine £1 million notes were issued in connection with the Marshall Plan on 30 August 1948, signed by E.E. Bridges, and were used internally as "records of movement" for a six-week period, along with other denominations, with total face value of £300 million, corresponding to a loan from the U.S. to help shore up HM Treasury. These were cancelled on 6 October 1948, and presumably destroyed, except for the £1 million "Number Seven" and "Number Eight" notes (serial numbers 000007 and 000008), which were given to the British and American treasury secretaries. These two have been in private hands since 1977, and most r