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Evening Star, Issue 21621, 17 January 1934, Page 12

The world’s largest collection of rare paper money, the “ Avonmore ” collection in London, comprises 40,000 bank notes issued by more than 100 countries during several centuries. It includes the note with the highest face value—five million trillion marks—and the oldest note in the, world—issued in China about 700 vears ago. Although one' British firm, with twenty-seven brickyards, is producing 5.000,000 bricks a day, there is such a shortage of bricks licit it is holding up house building in many par.ts of Great Britain.