Updated: 4:22 PM EST January 25, 2021
WASHINGTON — A seemingly common item, a U.S. $20 bill, has just sold at auction for the eyebrow raising sum of $400,000.
The note was printed in error with a "Del Monte Ecuador" banana sticker on its façade, and became a must-have for collectors. The banknote has set some historical milestones since it was found by an Ohio college student in 2004, who received it as part of an ATM withdrawal, according to the auction house which just recently sold it.
According to Heritage Auctions, after it was first discovered in 2004, the $20 banknote was put up on eBay where it was sold for $10,000. Word of the bill spread in the collecting community and it was later sold again in 2006 for $25,300.