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Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II, left, tours the gold vault during a visit to the Bank of England in central London on Thursday. Reports state that the queen signed a ￡1 million note (US$1.61 million) for the bank’s guest book. She was then shown the very first banknote she had signed for the guest book on Nov. 29, 1937, when she was 11.Dec 15, 2012

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