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Collectors Go Bananas and Pay Nearly $400,000

For Del Monte-Stickered $20 Bill
SARASOTA & MANATEE Heritage Auctions' sale of the famed 'Del Monte Note' sets world record
SARASOTA & MANATEE
for any banknote error ever offered at auction
AREA DALLAS, TX — Collectors broke out into a banana bidding war at a January

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A n t i q u e s D e A l e r s Heritage Auction and pushed
Antiques DeAlers
the price of a $20 bill featuring
a Del Monte banana sticker
Sarasota, Ellenton, Palmetto, Terra Ceia to nearly $400,000 at a public
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auction of rare, U.S. currency.
The coveted banknote error
sold to a bidder competing on
Heritages' live bidding platform,
HA Live. Pre-auction bidding
lifted the bids to $210,000.
From there, the winning bidder outlasted a determined phone bidder and two
other live internet bidders, to push the final winning auction price to $396,000.
Design Features With History The price sets a world record for any error banknote ever sold. This was just
SaraSota the third time the note had been offered at public auction since its discovery in
architectural 2004.
The “Del Monte sticker” obstruction caused a sensation among collectors of
Salvage U.S. currency when it was discovered by an Ohio college student in the summer
1093 Central Avenue of 2004. The student received it as part of an ATM withdrawal and shortly
941-955-6699 Antiques & Collectibles thereafter posted it on eBay where it sold for $10,000. News of the note had
5265 University Parkway Tea Room & Gifts barely hit the collecting community, when Heritage offered the note at auction
941-500-1212 941.417.2150 in 2006 and it sold for $25,300. I
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