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Money· 2020s

Twenty 100-euro notes in a returned library book

By the Editors · As reported by Yle News, 16 February 2026

FoundEspoo, Finland

Reunited — it went back to its owner or their family.

In April 2025, Olli Myyrä of Sello library in Espoo, Finland, picked up a non-fiction book that had sat overnight on the returns shelf and found twenty 100-euro notes between its pages. Staff checked the loan records, called the last borrower and asked whether anything might have been left inside. The borrower described the money correctly and came in with identification to collect it. The library would not say why the cash was there, only that it had not been used as a bookmark.

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