Del Monte $20 Bill Sold at Auction
Published January 7th, 2006
A 20-dollar bill mysteriously printed over a
simple fruit sticker has been auctioned off for
$25,300 dollars.
An auction company official in Dallas says the note, with a Del
Monte tag pressed into the paper next to Andrew Jackson’s portrait,
went to an unidentified buyer.
The 1996 bill originated at a Treasury Department printing
facility in Fort Worth. No one knows how the fruit label found its
way onto the paper, so that numbers and even the Treasury seal were
printed on top of it.
A Phoenix currency collector bought the bill online in 2003 for
little more than ten-thousand dollars.
