Alan Scrase said finding the polymer fivers with consecutive AA01 serial numbers was “the luck of the draw”.
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It is Bank of England’s first ever plastic note and savvy sellers have cottoned on to the fact people are clambering to own some of the first ones off the press.
Others, including this one with serial number AA01 176763 are now being bid on – and with a day left, will sell for more than £100.
There’s a chance that the old paper £5 note will be worth more once it is phased out and withdrawn from circulation, so you may want to hold onto the ones you have now.
The notes, released last week, are already flooding eBay for rare money collectors and people eager to get their hands on them early.
Instead of prison reformer Elizabeth Fry, the note’s back features Winston Churchill.
Not all of the notes have made it into circulation yet, so it’s possible that lower-numbered notes may still appear in cash machines before they make it onto auction websites. It is auctioning a Bank of England £5 note dating from 1979, with an estimated price of £7,000.
This is the lowest serial number note that will be available to the public.
Some of the first new fivers to be printed are fetching hundreds of pounds online..
The new £5 note paves the way for a new generation of security features, making the note harder to counterfeit, the Bank of England claims.
The long-awaited new £5 note is finally here – and it seems it might be worth a lot more than a fiver.
Novelist Jane Austen will be the face of the new £10 note from summer 2017.
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Fundraiser, John Thompson came up with the idea and the Institute of Fundraising, the official body for United Kingdom fundraisers has championed the campaign with the hashtags #givefive and #firstfiver. And who will you donate to?
