Rare £50 note found in charity shop by schoolboy

[Abyss]

In my news feed this article spiked my interest.... In 1876 1 troy oz Gold worth £4.24 could have purchased 11.79 Troy oz worth of Gold and in current GBP £17,802. The morale of the story hold onto the Gold not the paper money issued by a bank.....

https://www.measuringworth.com/datasets/gold/result.php?london=on&year_source=1718&year_result=2020

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cj5n679eml2o

    A rare £50 note dating back to the 1800s was discovered by a schoolboy in a charity shop

    The Norfolk student, 17, was helping out during a school field trip

    After some research he managed to sell the note at four times its face value

    The money went back to the charity

[AgD]

21 hours ago, Abyss said:

In my news feed this article spiked my interest.... In 1876 1 troy oz Gold worth £4.24 could have purchased 11.79 Troy oz worth of Gold and in current GBP £17,802. The morale of the story hold onto the Gold not the paper money issued by a bank.....

https://www.measuringworth.com/datasets/gold/result.php?london=on&year_source=1718&year_result=2020

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cj5n679eml2o

    A rare £50 note dating back to the 1800s was discovered by a schoolboy in a charity shop

    The Norfolk student, 17, was helping out during a school field trip

    After some research he managed to sell the note at four times its face value

    The money went back to the charity

I haven't looked at my late brother's note collection for a while but I'm sure he had one or two of this type of note in there, I will have to have a look now 🤣

[CANV]

Essex bank chelmsford.  if only that still existed.  imagine what those notes would look like .   van outen on the reverse of a peroxide blonde score 

[Britannia47]

@Abyss In 1982 this £50 note was one of the 1st coloured £50 notes in circulation. If it was in UNC condition it would also be worth 4x, but A01…. would be essential. Of course the gold proof quintuplet Sovereign could be worth 80x - No contest!……

[AgD]

Just dug them out and I was mistaken, it was the £5 versions he had.