{"id":487,"date":"2021-01-18T07:05:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-18T07:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/?p=487"},"modified":"2021-01-30T20:32:28","modified_gmt":"2021-01-30T20:32:28","slug":"del-monte-banana-sticker-bill-auctions-60k-dollars-collectors-item","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/del-monte-banana-sticker-bill-auctions-60k-dollars-collectors-item\/","title":{"rendered":"Value of rare error, worth 3,000 times its $20 face value. Colorful banana sticker (\u201cEcuador Del Monte Quality\u201d #4011) still affixed for almost 20 years"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.worldculturepictorial.com\/images\/content_6\/del-monte-banana-bill.png\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>(quote)<br><br> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2021\/jan\/18\/del-monte-note-20-dollar-bill-banana-sticker-auction\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Del Monte $20 bill set to sell for nearly $60,000 \u2013 barring banana skins<\/a><br> makes 2004 banknote a collector\u2019s item, auctioneer says<br><br> Officially, it is classified as \u201can obstructed printing error with retained obstruction\u201d. In reality, it appears to be a simple slip-up. A $20 banknote which had a sticker from a bunch of bananas attached to it before it was overprinted with security numbering is now up for auction at a Texas dealer, the rare error elevating its worth to $57,500, almost 3,000 times its face value.<br><br> The so-called Del Monte banknote is unusual, and so valuable, because the sticker is still affixed and clearly shows a serial number and US Department of the Treasury seal printed over it, according to Heritage Auctions of Dallas.<br><br> \u201cMost obstructions fall off shortly after printing, leaving behind a blank area of paper lacking the design, but errors with objects that \u2018stick\u2019 to the note and enter circulation are very rare,\u201d a description of the lot on the seller\u2019s website said.<br><br> \u201cWhen this note was printed at the Fort Worth western currency facility, it went through the first and second printings normally before the Del Monte sticker found its way on to the surface,\u201d the seller continued, describing the misprint as \u201cone of the greatest paper money errors in history\u201d.<br><br> (unquote)<br><br> Image courtesy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2021\/jan\/18\/del-monte-note-20-dollar-bill-banana-sticker-auction\">HA.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(quote) Del Monte $20 bill set to sell for nearly $60,000 \u2013 barring banana skins makes 2004 banknote a collector\u2019s item, auctioneer says Officially, it is classified as \u201can obstructed printing error with retained obstruction\u201d. In reality, it appears to be a simple slip-up. A $20 banknote which had a<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/del-monte-banana-sticker-bill-auctions-60k-dollars-collectors-item\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6,12],"tags":[26,27,43,42],"class_list":["entry","author-wcp-humor","post-487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-figures-and-facts","category-funny-bone","category-us-and-world","tag-facts","tag-figures","tag-funny","tag-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}