A rare £100 banknote from 1855, which was worth such an enormous sum at the time it had to be cut in half for safe delivery, has fetched £32,000 at auction. The note, issued by the Liverpool branch of the Bank of England 169 years ago, was worth approximately £15,000 in today's money on the date it was issued. Another rare note, a £10 bill from 1882 signed by the disgraced chief cashier Frank May, also "comfortably exceeded" its estimate, selling for a hammer price of £26,000. Andrew Pattison, of auctioneers Noonans, said the notes were bought by "pre-eminent collectors of British banknotes", adding "the market ... (full story)