For example, a 1922 $20 gold certificate in circulated condition usually sells for around $100. What makes them valuable is their condition. If one million were printed and only two have survived, then that would be rare and valuable.Ĭondition – Most old twenty dollar bills are not rare. If 1,000 1907 $20 bills were printed and all 1,000 still exist, then it isn’t rare. – Rarity is a factor of number of notes known to exist. Just send pictures of your bill and we can make an offer. If you would like to know the value of your old $20 bill, then please don’t hesitate to contact us. Supply and demand is always important as well. In order to be valuable, the bill has to at least be rare, and being in great condition always helps. Age matters indirectly because older $20 bills are generally valuable. Heritage claims a world record for the most expensive banknote of its type ever sold, $384,000 for a 1934 federal reserve bill which had a face value of $10,000 in a September 2020 auction.There are two major factors that affect the value of any old twenty dollar bill. Currency featuring overprints, mismatching serial numbers, misalignments and missing ink regularly sell for hundreds of dollars on eBay. Misprinted banknotes are prized by notaphilists, those who collect paper money. The colorful banana sticker, bearing the words “Ecuador Del Monte Quality” and the number #4011, would have been added after the first two stages, printing the front and back of the note, but before the final print that added the security logo and individual identification detail.īecause of this, Heritage said, “most would conjecture that this error note was no accident and probably the result of some very bored or creative BEP employee”.īanknotes produced in Fort Worth have been found with “Band-Aid, paper fragments, scotch tape and wood shavings” attached, Heritage Auctions said.
The original estimate for the current sale was between $25,000 and $50,000, Heritage Auctions said.Īll US banknotes produced since 1968 go through three print stages, the Bureau of Engraving and Printing (BEP), which manufactures paper money for the US treasury, says on its website.
Two years earlier it was “a bargain” at $10,000, when it was sold on eBay by a student in Ohio who received it as part of an ATM withdrawal. The banknote sold at auction in 2006, for more than $25,000. According to the Heritage Auctions website on Sunday afternoon, the highest bid was $57,500, which would actually cost the bidder more than $69,000, including a buyer’s premium.
#A 1934 20 DOLLAR BILL SERIAL NUMBER K09001544 A SERIES#
“When 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,” the seller continued, describing the misprint as “one of the greatest paper money errors in history”.īidding on the banknote, from the US treasury’s 1996 design series and released into circulation in 2004, will end on 22 January. “Most obstructions fall off shortly after printing, leaving behind a blank area of paper lacking the design, but errors with objects that ‘stick’ to the note and enter circulation are very rare,” a description of the lot on the seller’s website said. 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.
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