Telford man set to make over £13,000 from the sale of £5 note

The polymer £5 note with a serial number starting AA01 is attracting bids of on auction site eBay, with just one day left until its sale.

It is up for sale by Piotr Sobczuk, from Telford and its serial number AA01 444444 has attracted more than 77 bids and raised more than £13,700.

The auction is due to close at 11.30am on Sunday. It has attracted attention because of its repetitive serial number.

New fivers featuring Winston Churchill with serial numbers starting AA01 are attracting huge sums online from collectors.

Many examples of the new £5 note have been stuck up for sale on auction sites, and people across the country have been checking numbers when they get them in banks and shops to see if they are the lucky finder of one of the valuable notes.

At a Bank of England charity auction in October, one new fiver sold for £4,150. The note, with serial number AA01 000017, was the lowest number offered to the public.

The lowest numbered note, AA01 000001, went to the Queen.

Jesse McClure, who stars in television series Storage Hunters, secured Lot Four at the Bank of England auction, a five pound note carrying the serial number AA01 000020 for £1,200. He said he had since been offered £7,000 for it.

There are 999,999 new fivers with the AA01 prefix - and experts have said that if these have a very low or eye-catching run of digits in the remaining serial number, then they are more likely to be collectable.

The one Piotr has listed on eBay will be of interest to collectors thanks to its rounded numbers.

The launch of the £5 notes has seen much fanfare and micro-engraver Graham Short has got involved, and put tiny portraits of author Jane Austen to four of the new £5 notes – three of which have been found and could fetch up to £50,000.

The Bank of England had already spent £46million on printing the £5 note featuring Winston Churchill, and printed 275million new £10 notes featuring Jane Austen at the cost of £24million ready for the summer and after an investigation said it noted people's concerns but has no plans to change them.