A social media user made the thrift store find of a lifetime, paying just 50 cents for what appears to be a genuine $4 Continental Currency note dating all the way back to 1776. This incredible discovery was detailed in a viral post on Reddit by user u/BowsBeauxAndBeau, who explained they initially thought the item was nothing more than a cheap souvenir.
The poster described how they were browsing through a bin of old photographs at a consignment shop last week when they spotted the currency, per Newsweek. Since the item didn’t have a price tag, the user told the checkout staff where they found it and walked away having spent only $0.50, believing they had a cool reproduction piece of history.
