A rare £100 bank note found in a charity shop has sold for £140,000. Oxfam volunteer Paul Wyman was working in the Brentwood branch in Essex, when he spotted an unusual bank note in a box of donated items.
The £100 Palestine pounds is one of less than ten known to exist and was issued to high ranking officials during the time of the British Mandate in Palestine in 1927. Savvy Paul decided not to put it on the shelves and contacted an auction house where experts valued it at £30,000.
But it sold for a staggering £140,000 when it went under the hammer at Spink auction house in London. Paul said: "I realised that I was holding something in my hands that was incredibly rare.
