Why is a $20 bill with a banana sticker going for $125,000? RADIO.COM 1/23/2021
Collectors can be bananas.
A $20 bill with a sticker from food purveyor Del Monte on it is currently at auction for over $100,000, reports Delish.
The bill, referred to as the Del Monte Note, is an obscure piece of printed currency best known for the sticker permanently affixed to it.
This $20 Bill Is Selling For More Than $100,000 Because It Has A Del Monte Banana Sticker On It https://t.co/ucQoDoNq4h Delish.com (@DelishDotCom) January 21, 2021
Peculiarly, the Del Monte sticker ended up on the with the mark of the US treasury and the bill s serial number on top, indicating that it somehow got on the 20 early in the printing process.
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Collectors are going bananas over a $20 bill set to be auctioned off for at least $125,000.
A $20 bill with a Del Monte banana sticker permanently stuck to it with the U.S. Treasury marking and serial number printed over the top has a current high bid of $125,000 on Heritage Auctions. ( The Del Monte Note (Courtesy of Heritage Auctions, HA.com). )
The bill, dubbed The Del Monte Note, was first found by a college student from Ohio in 2004, after apparently withdrawing the bill from an ATM. The banana sticker is located to the right of President Andrew Jackson’s head, the result of an obstruction during printing.
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When you pull a $20 bill out of your pocket, how often do you really give it a good once-over? Probably not very often! But maybe you should, because right now, a $20 bill with a produce sticker on it is being auctioned off for more than $100,000.
This special bill is called the Del Monte Note and if you re super into obstructed error banknotes (it s a thing!!) you ll probably know all about it. It s well-known because the banana sticker is permanently tacked to the bill, and features the U.S. treasury marking and serial number printed on top of it, meaning that it was added fairly early on in the money printing process. It s not clear exactly how it got there, but people love it!!
Heritage Auctions will offer the famed “Del Monte note”, considered to be the most famous of all US ‘obstructed error banknotes’, at auction January 22 for the first time since 2006.
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