There were roughly 30 wads of £5 and £1 notes for a total of £130,000, or over $2 million in today’s U.S. dollars—enough to buy you a New York City two-bedroom condo (with maybe one roommate) or a 18,000-square-foot, six-bedroom home in Fargo, North Dakota.

A hoard of £30,000 in old blue £1's and white £5's was found by a builder in Brighton - the Police are looking after it, but, after almost 70 years hidden away the notes have deteriorated somewhat - I spoke live about it with Neil Pringle on BBC Breakfast Sussex radio on Friday 8th June at 7.25am. If sent off to the mutilated bank note department of the Bank of England would, when carefully separated, still be worth face value.