A RARE £5 note engraved with a portrait of Jane Austen has been found by a woman in Co Fermanagh, who donated it to charity.
The note is estimated to be worth around £50,000 and is the third to be discovered in the UK.
It is understood that the plastic note, the handiwork of Birmingham micro-artist Graham Short, may have been found in Enniskillen.
Mr Short revealed that he spent one of the five pound notes "in a small bar called Charlie's Bar" in Northern Ireland, believed to be in the Co Fermanagh town.
He came up with the idea of engraving Jane Austen on the transparent part of the new plastic Bank of England £5 notes to mark the 200th anniversary of her death.
He spent a note in each of the four parts of the UK, with just England yet to stake a claim to the precious notes. Each note is accompanied by a different quotation from one of her famous novels.
The first one was found in a cafe in Wales in December 2016, with the second discovery made in Scotland inside a Christmas card.
The discovery of the note in Co Fermanagh was revealed by Mr Short on Saturday.
"I went into a small bar called Charlie’s Bar and actually that is where I spent it - in there. It has just been found a couple of weeks ago," he told the BBC.
"An elderly lady found it. She said 'I don’t want my picture in the papers' but she said if it sells for a lot of money it would be better if young children could benefit from it."
