As first reported by Boggs friend and collector Wayne Homren, the British Museum plans to add a five-pound “Boggs Bill” into its permanent collection.

But not just any pound note. This particular interpretation of Her Majesty’s legal tender was featured as an exhibit in Boggs’s infamous trial at London’s Old Bailey, which is recounted in Lawrence Weschler’s Boggs: A Comedy of Values. Boggs, you may remember, was arrested in London on charges of forgery and his artwork was seized in 1986. He was acquitted the following year.

As Homren points out, Boggs himself discusses the donation in this video from 1999:

“For some reason Boggs never completed the donation paperwork,” writes Estate archivist and historian Craig Whitford. “I assisted [the Museum] with informing the estate of its existence and the importance of it remaining at the British Museum. The estate signed the donation paperwork making it a permanent part of their collection.”

In fact, the original letter from the British Museum was discovered in the Estate’s archives last year:

The five-pound note is an extremely rare item in Boggs’s oeuvre of currency art. Of the exhibits shown at Boggs’s trial, all but this one were subsequently sent to the Secret Service. When he moved back to the U.S. in 1988, Boggs unsuccessfully attempted to retrieve these works. They, along with some 1,300 other pieces of Boggs’s personal property, are feared lost to a government shredder.

The note itself — or one very much like it — can be seen in this news report from the time:

We’re also told that Tom Hockenhull, curator of the British Museum’s Coins and Medals department, plans to write an article for the British Museum Magazine in “the near future.” We’ll update this story when more details become available.

Update: Watch this video of Tom Hockenhull explaining the importance of Boggs’s £5 and its place in the Museum.