Friday, January 06, 2006

Collectors Go Bananas for Flawed $20 Bill


The famed "Del Monte Note" is expected to be auctioned
off for $20,000 - $25,000.

Image source: CNN / AP


An AP newswire article, via CNN, reports that:

An ordinary fruit sticker that mysteriously ended up on a $20 bill could spur currency collectors to bid up to 1,000 times the bill's face value at an auction Friday.

The flawed bill bears a red, green and yellow Del Monte sticker next to Andrew Jackson's portrait. The bill originated at a U.S. Treasury Department printing facility in Fort Worth, but how the fruit tag found its way onto the greenback is unknown.

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