{"id":25925,"date":"2012-04-14T05:00:24","date_gmt":"2012-04-13T22:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/a-working-life-the-head-of-notes\/"},"modified":"2016-09-13T14:02:15","modified_gmt":"2016-09-13T07:02:15","slug":"a-working-life-the-head-of-notes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/a-working-life-the-head-of-notes\/","title":{"rendered":"A working life: the head of notes"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nDeep beneath the Bank of England, Victoria Cleland literally does sterling work among the cages stashed with cashI am standing in a room filled with metal cages, row upon row, stacked three cages high. Each is filled with tightly wrapped, plastic-covered packets of pristine \u00a350 and \u00a320 notes. It seems like a good idea to ask Victoria Cleland, head of notes at the Bank of England, how much money is in each cage. “Well, there are 40 packets in each \u2013 you can do the maths,” she says. A label on one says it contains 5,000 \u00a350 notes. By my mental arithmetic, that’s \u00a3250,000 per packet. Or \u00a310m in each cage.To get into the vaults underneath the Bank of England, I have surrendered my purse (you are not allowed to carry money in, because you are certainly not allowed to carry any out) and my mobile, in case I take photos of the security measures. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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