Monday, February 20, 2017

Elderly woman finds £5 note worth £50,000, donates the money to young people

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Finding out that the fiver in your wallet is worth thousands of pounds is a dream-come-true for some — but not everyone.

A Northern Irish woman who discovered a rare £5 note worth £50,000 ($62,317) has given the note to charity because she says she has no use for the money. 

The note is one of just four ultra-rare notes worth £50,000 in circulation in the UK. The note — which is engraved with a special Jane Austen inscription — is the third one to be snapped up, leaving just one left.

The woman who discovered the note contacted the gallery founded by Graham Short — the artist who engraved the notes — stating her wish to donate the note to charity. Read more...

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