Women finds rare five pound note worth £50,000 – and donates it to charity

A woman known only as ‘J’ found a rare £5 note reportedly worth £50,000 - and she’s decided to donate it to charity.

The fiver is worth a small fortune because it one of four special note with a golden micro inscription of Jane Austen, by Birmingham micro-artist Graham Short.

The woman sent the note for authentication to the Tony Huggins-Haig Gallery in Scotland, where Short confirmed it was real.

She found it Enniskillen, Northern Ireland last year.

The woman said:

I don’t need it at my time of life. Please use it to help young people.

Short’s previous work, which was the Queen on a pinhead, sold for £100,000.

There is one special five pound note out there – still in circulation.

The serial number of the note is AM32 885554.

Short had spent the note in the four home nations, and England is the last one to claim its one.

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