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John Bett & Amy Reast & Hannah Mackenzie Wood

Rare £100 banknote found in charity shop sells at auction for £140,000

An incredibly rare £100 banknote found in a charity shop has sold online for a whopping £140,000 - 1,400 times its original value.

Paul Wyman was working as a volunteer at the Oxfam store when he came across the nearly 100-year-old banknote in a donation box, the Mirror reports.

The £100 Palestine banknote in one of less than ten known to exist and was given to senior officials during the British Mandate in Palestine in 1927.

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