Collectors go bananas for flawed $20 bill

Collectors go bananas for flawed $20 bill: "Collectors go bananas for flawed $20 bill

(AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez) :: The famed 'Del Monte Note', a $20 bill with a Del Monte sticker on it that sold on Ebay for $10,000 is seen at the Heritage Galleries and Auctioneers in Dallas, Thursday, Dec. 29, 2005.

By Associated Press
MATT JOYCE
Updated: 01/06/06

DALLAS

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.

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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."