Rare £10 note sells for £7,200 at auction
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A fortnight after a rare plastic £10 note sold for £3,600 on eBay , another has been auctioned off by the Bank of England for £7,200.
The note has the serial number AA01 000010 - which is said to be the lowest available to the public.
The life-changing sum - which is double what was originally estimated by auctioneers - is to be donated to a handful of charities.
Another 87 polymer £10 notes were also flogged at the auction on Friday.
A second note - with an AA001 000011 serial number- sold for £5,200, while the third AA01 000014 edition was traded for £3,500.
The proceeds of the auction are to go to three charities - Candlelighters , Haven House Children's Hospice and Macmillan Cancer Support .
In September, we revealed how a plastic £10 note sold for thousands of pound on eBay.
The tenner had a serial number that combined the rare AH prefix with 1775 - the year Jane Austen was born.
Meanwhile the highest plastic £5 note to date goes to eBayer Lauben4020, who sold a fiver for £5,000 just months after it was released into circulation last October.
The highest sum raised however, was at a charity Bank of England auction - where it was sold for an eye-watering £80,000.
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Other 'rare' £10 notes to look out for
With many of the AA01's going to a special charity auction , it looks like AH is the serial code you need as that's the one you'll find on the streets.
A few AA01 notes have also emerged, with these selling for as much as £250 each .
AE notes are also selling well, with people getting around double the face value of their notes.
But there are some specific serial numbers that could well justify the hype.
You should also look out for: JA01, they're Austen's initials; JA75, because that's Austen’s birth year; and JA17, the year of the author's death.
Changechecker.org explains: "Whilst these will likely become popular with collectors in the future, it could be many years before notes with these serial numbers enter circulation due to the huge amount of possible combinations that would come before ‘JA’."
Serial numbers '16 121775' and '18 071817', which would represent Austen's date of birth and death respectively, might also fetch you a small fortune.
Serial number '17 751817' includes her birth and death year combined. And '28 011813' was when Pride and Prejudice was first published, so might also be worth much more than the value it technically represents.
The old paper £10 note is expected to be withdrawn from circulation in Spring next year - although no date has yet been shared by the Bank of England.
A new £20 note featuring artist JMW Turner will follow in 2020.