Your five-pound note could be worth a small fortune...

Keep a close eye on your fivers!



The World Cup might be over, but football fever is still sweeping the nation in one very subtle way.

After England captain Harry Kane picked up the Golden Boot at this summer's tournament, a batch of £5 notes engraved with the striker are being distributed around the UK.

Birmingham-based artist Graham Short has etched a thumbnail-sized portrait of the footballer onto the transparent section of six notes in total, with four of them now in circulation.

The rare fivers come after Short previously etched Jane Austen onto the new £5 notes in 2016. As those notes were valued at £50,000, the Kane versions are expected to be just as valuable.

"I was watching the World Cup and when it looked like Harry Kane would get the Golden Boot I started thinking it would be great to mark that by putting his portrait on a £5 note," Short explained. "I've done six – one for each goal he scored – for Harry himself, the FA and four to be spent as we did with the Jane Austen notes around the UK and Ireland."

Short said he spent the first of the Harry Kane notes, which were created in collaboration with fellow artist Tony Huggins-Haig, in the West Midlands village of Meriden.