This is a hilarious story I stumbled upon like a week ago. You may have heard of error coins and error bills. Maybe you even own one. Depending on the type, these errors may carry a small or big premium to the face value but sometimes they are auctioned for wife changing money.
But this is not just another error. It's the mother of errors. Meet the current holder for the world's most expensive error note:
To the untrained eye this would like yet another 20 $ note with a banana sticker. But a closer inspection reveals the sticker came straight from the printing process as it has the original ink and everything:
The banana sticker became affixed to the sheet sometime after the second stage of printing, partially obscuring the word TWENTY behind the green seal of the Treasury Department. However, the banana sticker picked up some of the ink from the third stage of printing, including from the green seal itself and the adjacent serial number. This confirms the error as a genuine one that occurred at the BEP facility. source
This is an extremely rare type of error note called in the "retained obstruction" category, where a foreign object (in this case the banana sticker) gets stuck during the printing process on the note and remains there even after the bill enters circulation.
Nicknamed the "Del Monte" note, due to the banana produce sticker, it was discovered by an Ohio college student in 2003 during an ATM withdrawal. The student later sold it on eBay for $10,000 but that was only the beginning. The bill was auctioned in 2006 for $25,000 and in 2021 it was auctioned for...
$396,000 USD
Yes, almost 400k fucking USD for a note with a fucking banana sticker. 😂
And with that price, the Del Monte brole the world record for the most expensive error note which it still holds as we speak.
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I guess the moral of the story is to take a closer look next time a note with a sticker falls in your hands 😂
Feel free to click here and here if you like to read more about this story.
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!LOL that just goes to show how stupid some people are.
$400k for a note worth maybe $1 in materials, including the banana sticker! 🤣
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It's an interesting bill and I wonder what the banks would do if they do find it. I guess they might take it out of circulation directly.
Doubt it's going to a bank anytime soon lol
That's crazy, a twenty dollar bill with a sticker on it... yes I know it's super rare and unique and such, but 'comeon, it's still a twenty dollar bill!
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Delmonte owns the note! It figures, !LOL
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Damn bro that's an incredible story. Imagine finding a banana sticker on a bill and it turning out to be worth $396,000! Makes me want to check every note carefully from now on. !LOLZ
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That's a pretty damn cool note! Del Monte Ecuador.... People pay crazy money for extremely rare items!
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Evidence that some Printer's Staff having their lunch breaks at their work stations, It will be a matter of time a Dorito chip is found stamped onto a banknote.
That would be epic. I'd probably eat though
That’s one expensive banana…..🍌
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Hahahhahahaha and still the same code 4011 used in the groceries in here
If the label on a banana you purchase has a four-digit code like 4011 is the code for bananas, it indicates that the banana was grown conventionally using pesticides. There will be four-digit stickers on every produce that is cultivated traditionally.
The sticker for an organically cultivated fruit or vegetable will have five digits, beginning with "9." The PLU of an organically grown banana, for instance, would be 94011.
A banana, like all other fruits and vegetables, has the same produce code regardless of where you purchase it.
and when also not just where hehehehe probably is old that code! thanks for explaining hehehe , but I still see del monte around there in addition to chiquita ! hehehe
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STOPI had never seen that error before its cool.
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