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A Toll Free Vanity Telephone number 888-888-8888 was sold for Million+USD.

2008, BBC News reported, UK-based banknote collector fetched £78,300 Pounds for a £1,000,000 Bank of England World War II Treasury note s/n D-000008 dated August 30, 1948. That's $138,000USD. According to the Guinness Book of Records, this purchase as being the highest denomination in private ownership. And most importantly its with serial number #8.

A man in Guangdong, China owns of a cheap QQ brand model (40,000 yuan) car has sparked controversy by spending a fortune on a lucky license plate with the number 88888. The license plate is estimated to be worth more than 200,000 yuan ($29,200USD).

In 2003 a Register reports another chinese number 8888-8888 sold for $300,000USD to Sichuan Airlines.

The 1st Summer Olympics in Beijing, China was knowingly scheduled on 8/8/08 (August 8, 2008) at 8:00 p.m to bring certain luck, this clearly shows China wanted this date for The Opening Ceremony to be perfect and it was indisputably Golden to say the least.

A Telephone number 8888-8888 was sold for $270,000USD in Chengdu, China.

A man in Hangzhou, China offered to sell his license plate reading A88888 and asking for $1.12 MillionRMB that's $160,000USD.

In Hong Kong, a License Plate with just a single numbered "8" was purchased for $6 Million+USD to a Billionaire Business Tycoon.

The The Petronas Twin Towers in Malaysia each have 88 Floors.

The Air Canada route from Shanghai to Toronto is Flight AC88.

The KLM route from Hong Kong to Amsterdam is Flight KL888.

The United Airlines route from San Francisco to Beijing is Flight UA888.

The Air Astana route from Beijing to Almaty is Flight KC888.

Singapore Airlines reserves flight numbers beginning with the number 8 to routes in China and Korea.

In Singapore, a breeder of rare Dragon fish (Asian Arowana) (which are "lucky fish" and being a rare species, are required to be microchipped), makes sure to use numbers with plenty of eights in their microchip tag numbers, and appears to reserve particular numbers especially rich in eights and sixes (e.g. 702088880006688) for particularly valuable specimens.

As part of grand opening promotions, a Commerce Bank branch in New York's Chinatown raffled off safety deposit box No. 888.

An "auspicious" numbering system was adopted by the developers of 39 Conduit Road Hong Kong, where the top floor was "88" – Chinese for double fortune. It is already common in Hong Kong for ~4th floors not to exist; there is no requirement by the Buildings Department for numbering other than that it being "made in a logical order. A total of 43 intermediate floor numbers are omitted from 39 Conduit Road: those missing include 14, 24, 34, 54, 64, all floors between 40 and 49; the floor number which follows 68 is 88.