Around 2.00 p.m on Saturday, 10 hours before the punt officially died, a man "sort of sheepishly" presented Dublin street trader Mr Brendan Dowling with a £5 note.
"He said nothing but his eyes were daring me to challenge him," said Mr Dowling, whose Celtic Corner on Grafton Street sells leather goods and jewellery.
"I'm working out what to do with it," he says, thinking he'll offload it to the Bewley's café opposite his stall.
He said he had not received many punts over the past few weeks, as consumers generally adapted quickly to the new currency - a common trend across all types of business.
The dual circulation period of punts and euros ended at midnight on Saturday when the punt ceased to be legal tender.
During the last day of the punt's circulation, businesses said there had not been any frantic last-minute spending of punts, but one particular form of payment caused a lot of queries - gift vouchers.
Marks and Spencer, Arnotts, and Eason all reported phone calls from people asking if their gift vouchers, paid for in punts, would still be valid. All were reassured that they would.
An unusual voucher resurfaced in Easons branch on O'Connell street at the end of last week. "It had to be more than 10 years old," said Ms Heidi Murphy, book manager.
She said it was worth £10, but was a booklet comprising a series of 50p stamps. Ms Murphy, who said she has worked in books for about four years, had never seen one before.
She said she was slightly nostalgic for the punt but, from a business and logistical perspective, she is glad the dual circulation period has ended.
The weekend before last saw a brief increase in the amount of punts used, as Welsh rugby fans brought over any old currency they had, said Mr John Morris, a barman in the Temple Bar.Scottish rugby fans, he expects, will also bring some when they are next here, but their punts will no longer be legal tender.
The largest amount of punts tendered in the Graham O'Sullivan coffee shop on Dawson Street early on Saturday morning was £20. It was a bit of a rarity, as the punt had been fading away for weeks, said the shop's manager, Mr Myles O'Reilly.
He normally makes a daily lodgement in euros, and has made only one punt lodgement in the past week. The smaller euro coins, he says, are still causing confusion. "People are not recognising the coins and are giving in notes all the time," he said.