Cash in the Attic breaks records as couple bag highest-ever sum for rare banknotes

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Channel 5's Cash in the Attic (September 5).The great grandparents, who are also life-long collectors, appeared on the hit bargain show with their granddaughter Danielle Smith, but the trio had no idea just how much money they'd make in the auction room.READ MORE:Cash in the Attic fans floored as scrapbook rescued from skip makes eye-watering profitRetired builder Vic discovered the haul of 100-year-old banknotes over 30 years ago, whilst renovating a two-bedroom house in Beaminster in Dorset.The nine white bank notes, which date back to 1916 and 1918, had been kept and forgotten by the homeowner who originally found them.Janet, a former school science technician, signed up to the show with the hope of raising £3k so she could take 11 family members from four generations on a cruise to celebrate their Diamond Wedding Anniversary.The couple, who have just become great-grandparents to baby Freddie, have been together for 58 years, so they wanted to raise some money for the holiday before the landmark anniversary.Vic thought £3k was too steep a sum, so he and Janet were shocked when the first note sold for a whopping £8k.Vic said: "I have been dying to know a little bit about these notes.

I was a builder and bought a house in Beaminster. And we were doing it up and I happened to walk beneath the stairs and there was a hole and I pulled this tin out (containing the notes).

It was thirty-two years ago."Each of the individual notes sell for a four-figure sum and the three five-pound notes are sold as one lot for an incredible £16k.The mystery buyer turned out to be the President of the International Bank Notes Society.Appraiser David Fergus said: "To find one Bank of England white £5 note is unusual, to find this many, and the.