A brand-new £10 note featuring Jane Austen has been sold for £3,600 on eBay due to one very bizarre reason.
The new note featured the serial number AH17 754827 – which is the same year the author was born in.
Each of the new plastic tenners features a portrait of Jane Austen from the novel Pride and Prejudice which read: ‘I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading’.
There were other notes which were listed as sold but there were often instances were bidders had not yet paid the money for them, as eBay is powerless to make customers cough up their cash.
The listing could spark a flurry of £10 holders with the serial number 1775 trying to cash in on their notes.
A brand-new £10 note featuring Jane Austen has been sold for £3,600 on eBay as it has the same birth year as the author
The new note featured the serial number AH17 75 – which is the same year the author was born in
So far, the new £10 notes have failed to generation the type of interest that the £5 notes enjoyed last year.
Many of the notes which started with ‘AA01’ were auctioned off at higher than their street value when the new fiver was released, although the Bank of England appears to have opted for a different tactic at the new release.
A number of the AA01 notes are being sold off at auction this time round, with a high proportion of the new £10 notes featuring the serial code beginning in AH like the £3,600 note auctioned off on Friday.
The old paper £10 notes are set to be phased out of circulation by Spring next year, although no official date has been set.
The release of the new £10 note comes after the new 12-sided £1 coin was brought into circulation in March this year.
Those holding the old £1 coin need to spend their cash quickly as the round coin will no longer be accepted as legal tender from October 15.
After October 15, the current round £1 coin can continue to be deposited into a customer’s account at most High Street Banks in the UK.
A new plastic £20 note will be introduced featuring JMW Turner on one side by 2020.
The listing could spark a flurry of £10 holders with the serial number 1775 trying to cash in on their notes
Jane Austen features on the new plastic £10 note and was born on December 16 1775