Harry Kane £5 notes have entered circulation and are worth a fortune if you find one
New commemorative Harry Kane £5 notes have been scattered across Britain and are worth a fortune if you can find them.
Kane clinched the Golden Boot award after finishing top scorer at this summer’s World Cup in Russia and the achievement has been recognised with the new fivers.
Each note features a 5mm portraits of the England captain and carries the engraving ‘World Cup Golden Boot Winner 2018’ to commemorate the historic moment.
Harry Kane-Golden Boot. We have commissioned microartist Graham Short to create 6 x £5 notes.
Start checking your fivers today, your artwork could be in your wallet, purse or pocket. Happy Hunting.#fivers #grahamshort #thhgallery #art #uk #artwork #love #summer #put-back pic.twitter.com/6jBfwAwDTQ— THH Gallery (@thh_gallery) 23 July 2018
However, fans eager to get their hands on the cash will struggle to find one as micro-engraver Graham Short, who designed the notes, only produced six of them.
Two of them are already out of circulation after they were presented to Kane and the Football Association.
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The other four remain up for grabs after Short spent them in the village of Meriden, in the West Midlands, one in Edinburgh and one in in Merthyr Tydfil.
He intends to spend the final five-pound note somewhere in Northern Ireland to complete the spread of money across Britain, with the designs insured for £50,000.
Short told the Daily Star: “I was watching the World Cup, as many people were, and it looked like Harry Kane would get the Golden Boot and when he did I started thinking it would be great to mark that by putting his portrait on a £5 note and got to work.
#TheBest FIFA Men’s Player 2018 nominee | @HKane
Helped @England to fourth-place finish @FIFAWorldCup and #WorldCup adidas Golden Boot winner pic.twitter.com/O5R92yFnvF
— FIFA.com (@FIFAcom) July 24, 2018
“I spent the first Harry Kane note in Meriden, which is the centre of England, only a few miles from the M40 and M42, and so that note could travel in any direction.”
It’s not the first time Short, 72, has performed such a stunt. He previously added a Jane Austin portrait to several £5 notes and these have been valued at around at £50,000.
