Rare plastic £5 note fetches a staggering £60,100 on eBay after receiving more than 100 bids in two days
The unique fiver sold for over 12,000 times its street value after attracting 136 bids from 21 different bidders
A RARE £5 note which was put up for sale on eBay for just £1 has gone for over £60,000 on the online marketplace.
The fiver, which has the unique serial number AA01, went for £60,100 when the action ended on Sunday morning.
Seller Piotr Sobczuk, from Telford, Shropshire, put the new polymer note - with the serial number AA01 444444 - on the auction site after finding it in his change and realising its worth.
Notes with low serial numbers are considered valuable by collectors, as they want to get their hands on notes made early on in the printing process.
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The folded £5 note has now sold for over 12,000 times its street value, after 21 bidders tried to get their hands on it 136 times.
The seller is expected to post the valuable note first class standard delivery, having listed postage for just 64p.
eBay will also rake in over £250 in fees thanks to the hefty sale, according to the site's fee calculator.
But there's no guarantee that the seller will actually cough up the cash.
Last year, Gareth Wright thought he had struck gold when he listed a £5 note with the serial number AK47 on eBay and it attracted a winning bid of £80,100.
But he was left disappointed when the buyer refused to pay up. Users with the highest bid are under no obligation to complete their payment but do face a bad review - or in some cases - a ban from the auction site.
At a Bank of England charity auction in October, one new fiver sold for £4,150.
The note, with serial number AA01 000017, was the lowest number offered to the public.
The lowest numbered note, AA01 000001, was given as a gift to the Queen.
Piotr Sobczuk did not wish to comment on the sale.
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