Brits are being urged to check their bags and purses for £5 notes - which could be worth over £100 each. Anyone who owns a fiver with 'special' details could be in for a small fortune.
These include things like a quirky serial number, banknotes with errors or simply being very rare. These notes now change hands for large sums of money on auction platforms like eBay, the Sun reports. READ MORE: Strictly fans spot 'change' in Giovanni as fans in agreement over him and Rose For example, one 1957 fiver recently sold for £113.11.
This old-style banknote was an example of the jumbo-sized version of the humble fiver. The notes were sized 211mm by 133mm - the largest fiver ever, in circulation from 1945 to 1957.
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