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  "textContent": "Sophie holding the receipt that briefly made her the richest coffee drinker ever (Picture: BPM media)\n\nIt’s not every day that a trip to a coffee shop makes you the richest person in the world.\n\nBut, for a brief moment at least, that’s what happened to Sophie Downing.\n\nThe 29-year-old had set out to buy a matcha latte from her local cafe with a £10 gift card.\n\nWhen she was handed her receipt at 200 Degrees in Nottingham, it showed she had a remaining balance of more than £63,000,000,000,000,000.\n\nThat’s one lucky matcha latte.\n\n##  Sign up for all of the latest stories\n\nStart your day informed with Metro's **News Updates** newsletter or get **Breaking News **alerts the moment it happens.\n\nThe buzz soon turned out to be an ‘administrative error’ which saw the gift card number – not the gift card value – entered into the wrong part of the till.\n\nSophie, a business owner, told the BBC: ‘I’m just enjoying being the richest woman in the world on paper while it lasts.’\n\nThe lucky receipt she was handed at 200 Degrees (Picture: Nottinghamshire Live / BPM Media)\n\nShe said staff were ‘confused’ when they gave her the receipt with the massive gift card balance.\n\nDespite finding it ‘hilarious’, Sophie said she was ‘never going to take advantage’ of her new-found wealth.\n\nSo she used up the actual remaining £4.85 left on her card with one more drink.\n\nSophie added that she’d have preferred to have a £63 quadrillion gift card to spend at the supermarket rather than just on coffees.\n\nA spokesperson for 200 Degrees said: ‘Due to a technical administrative error, the gift card number, rather than the gift card value was entered into the wrong part of the till.\n\n‘As a result, the customer was generated a receipt which suggested they had a rather higher amount of money left on their gift card than they actually did.\n\n‘The customer was only charged exactly what they should have been, and after they had completed their purchase, their gift card had exactly the right amount left on it, they just had a receipt which showed a very different amount, which the barista gave them as a souvenir.\n\n‘They were then given a correct receipt which showed the true value of the gift card.’\n\n******Get in touch with our news team by emailing us atwebnews@metro.co.uk.******\n\n**For more stories like this,****check our news page**.\n\nComment now Comments  Add Metro as a Preferred Source on Google Add as preferred source ",
  "title": "Nottingham woman becomes quadrillionaire – but can only spend it on coffee"
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