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Checks wallet... So, there’s a fiver worth €50K in someone’s home

Engraver Graham Short decided to etch a tiny picture of Jane Austen on four Bank of England five pound notes back in December. 

Due to the value of his other work, these special notes were valued at around €50,000 – although some estimate they could be worth €100,000.

Three of the notes have been found: one in a Christmas card, another in a cafe in south Wales and one by an elderly Northern Irish woman after Graham bought himself a beer at Charlie's Bar.

In a wonderful turn of events, the elderly lady sent the fiver back to Graham's gallery with a note asking him to use it to "help young people".

"The lady who found the note has surprised us all by sending it to the gallery and asking that it be used to help young people," the artist's website explains.

"So Graham and the Gallery will be working closely together to do so."

"Currently contacting outlets connected to Children in Need to try and give this to a good cause so we honour the request of the lucky woman who originally discovered the note."

But that means there's ONE note still out there somewhere.

According to the Telegraph, Graham spent it in Dickinson & Morris Ye Olde Pork Pie Shoppe, in Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire, but as Tony Huggins-Haig, a fellow artist, says: "If I can easily change sterling for Euros at the airport, then it could just as easily be anywhere in the world." 

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