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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;afantiques, post: 197015, member: 25&quot;]<i>Art experts are estimating the four fivers could be worth up to £50,000 after collectors forked out thousands to buy notes with unusual serial numbers.</i></p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;d say there would be no cross-over whatsoever, since the engraved notes would be considered as just &#039;damaged&#039; by the sort of collector who would buy a normal note with some unusual&nbsp; (but original) feature.</p><p><br /></p><p>The Daily Mail is a British newspaper that has a reputation for, if not actually making stuff up, then taking a trivial happening and blowing it up out of all proportion. Their readership incudes large numbers of people to whom the words &#039;experts say&#039; is as good as saying &#039;it is true&#039;. Daily Mail news stories stop just short of &#039;Elvis found on the Moon&#039;.</p><p><br /></p><p>The story says that the four notes could be worth up to (great weasel words) £50,000, which I read as for all 4, but the OP read as &#039;each&#039;.</p><p><br /></p><p>As for Euro notes, well, who knows? In a recent mixed lot of common banknotes in a local auction there was a badly damaged but in my opinion cashable 500 Euro note. Unless there was ever a 500 issued with no built in metal thread, it was a forgery and I examined it carefully and decided it was as bent as a nine bob note. Nevertheless, the auction lot sold for several hundred pounds, so either I was wrong or two or more people were fooled. I have not heard of any special interest in Euro notes - I&#039;d put a crisp uncirculated 5 or 10 in my collection since they are a significant event in European banknotes, but for the cost of multiple minor variations or higher denominations, I&#039;d buy much more interesting older, pre-Euro notes for that value.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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