Man Finds the Equivalent of £47,000 Stuffed into the Walls of His New Home

This would be most peoples dream, to buy a house and when renovating it find money hidden away

But imagine the disappointment when you realised some of it was in old currency , in this case the peseta , and no longer valid

But he was very lucky, the first four jars were in euros, still valid, and an artist Pepe Cruz has bought the bulk of the pesetas from him because the father of the future buyer, José María Cruz Novillo, was the designer of the banknotes

This and the money he received from the artist was enough to restore his roof

I found this additional information out from doing a further search and edited the original post to give a truer picture of the story, as the mirror link is not giving the full version

This is a translation of the article i found that was originally in spanish for those interested in the story, not a perfect translation but understandable

At the beginning of the month we found out about the curious discovery that Toño Piñeiro found while renovating a house that he bought in the abandoned village of A Pousada, in Sober Lugo Galicia . Nothing more and nothing less than 9 million of the old pesetas (which in exchange has been about 54,000 euros). A whole treasure that the former owner of the house kept jealously in Nesquik jars and that, when he died without descendants, were totally forgotten. The boats have been appearing in a staggered way, in the vacation periods of Piñeiro, who lives in Valencia, and that he took advantage of to renew a new stay on each trip to Lugo.

He finds 9 million pesetas in Nesquik cans and cannot change them into euro

Toño had time to change the money he found in the first four jars into euros, which also helped him to renovate the roof of the house. However, what at first was a joy, quickly turned into disappointment, since the deadline to exchange pesetas for euros from the Bank of Spain ended last year, so the money found is now impossible to exchange.

"I'm not going to cry," Piñeiro then admitted somewhat resigned to the newspaper El Progreso. Now, luckily, he has found a buyer for those tickets. According to the Diario de Pontevedra account, the designer Pepe Cruz has shown interest in taking part of the loot found in the house.

The artist has shown interest in six models of the series of 200, 500, 1,000, 2,000, 5,000 and 10,000 pesetas banknotes that the Bank of Spain put into circulation between 1979 and 1985, since it was his father, José María Cruz Novillo , the person in charge of designing them. The father of the future buyer, José María Cruz Novillo, was the designer of the banknotes. the humidity", Pepe pointed out in statements to the aforementioned newspaper, who would like to recover "as the archive of our studio" a sample of what was probably "the most reproduced work" of all those produced by his father.

www.mirror.co.uk/money/man-finds-47000-stuffed-walls-29112697