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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.