1. 2001 20 Dollar Misprint
2. 2009 20 Dollar Bill Misprint
3. 2004 A 20 Bill Value
4. 2004 20 Dollar Bill Misprints
5. 20 Dollar Misprint
6. 2001 20 Dollar Bills Picture
7. 2004 20 Dollar Bill Misprint Worth

Currency is printed three times in sheets of 36 subjects though there have been times when 12, 16 and even 18 subject sheets were made. The back is printed first and taken to a drying room. 2004 100$ Mismatched Serials - Letters and Numbers. BILLWATCHER: 3 3,097. $20 Polymer Holograph Error? CUOwner: 4 2,773. Depending on the rarity of your bill’s serial number, it could be worth a crazy amount of money — when we checked eBay on Sept. 27, 2017, we found dollar bills with fancy serial numbers listed for as much as $550. And be sure to tell your grandma you want your birthday $20 in singles this year.

Posted on 01/06/2006 9:28:17 AM PST by billorites

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.

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.

'I've collected for probably seven years now and nothing comes close to the way people react to it their eyes pop out,' said Daniel Wishnatsky, a Phoenix currency collector who bought the bill in 2003 on the eBay auction Web site for $10,100.

Heritage Galleries and Auctioneers was auctioning the bill for Wishnatsky in Orlando, Fla. The auction company and Wishnatsky, a member of the Society of Paper Money Collectors, think the bill could fetch two to three times his investment.

Jason Bradford, president of PCGS Currency in Newport Beach, Calif., authenticated the error was genuine and not faked outside the printing plant.

Bradford said currency goes through three printing stages: first the back is printed, next the face and then the bill receives serial number and treasury seal stamps.

In the case of the Del Monte note, the seal and serial number are both printed on top of the sticker, meaning the fruit tag must have found its way onto the bill midway through the process, he said.

There's no way of knowing whether a mischievous printer intentionally placed the sticker on the bill, he said.

The Treasury's Bureau of Engraving and Printing, which produces all U.S. paper money at facilities in Washington and Fort Worth, inspects and destroys flawed currency before it escapes the plants.

It investigated the note's history after the misprint surfaced but couldn't pinpoint a cause, spokeswoman Dawn Haley said.

The note, which is in nearly perfect condition, has achieved celebrity status among currency collectors, appearing on the covers of the Bank Note Reporter and Numismatic News.

As of Thursday, the auctioneers had already received an online bid of $14,000.

2001 20 Dollar Misprint

2009 20 Dollar Bill Misprint

Steve Forbes was right: We shoudl get rid of these new 20s.

I find this absurdly funny. If some worker had stuck a dole fruit sticker on the bill after it was printed, it would be worth $20 bucks. But because it slipped in BEFORE the bill was printed, people are willing to spend THOUSANDS?
It's not a printing error, its a piece of debris that fell on the paper and wasn't caught. Geeshhh.
Well, another example of how fabulously wealthy people are in our country, that we can waste our money on stuff like this......

I dunno, but this would seem to indicate that the Secretary of the Treasury doesn't actually sign each bill. Or he'd've caught this.

The funny part is that in 10 or 20 years, the glue on the back of the sticker is going to let go....

Who's the wisenheimer at the Treasury dept that is eating bananna's on the job?

So, when will the lawsuit from Del Monte begin?

I want an immediate special counsel investigation to find out when Rove knew and who leaked this.

Heads should roll!

What!!! He doesn't sign each one!!! Just like his corrupt fellow Cabinet officer Rumsfeld with the condolence letters to soldiers. I want an immediate NYT probe!!.

I would think Del Monte Corp. would buy the bill.

It does seem odd. Supply and demand, I guess.
I know the government works very hard to destroy any 'mistakes' in the printing process, so when one slips through it's a relatively big deal (demand). This is a very strange one, no doubt.
Ebay has many, many listings for 'error' coins, both the 'one of a kind' variety and entire runs of defective coins (1955 double die cent, etc.).
To each his own, I guess. I have collected coins in the past, but always prefered the examples of the finest artwork, not the errors.

Well Rubin(?) was an idiot.

Not if pressed under glass.

Okay. Bend over...

Not a waste of money, but a sound investment. Minting errors invariably gain vaule. Some to astronomical amounts.

Probably the most famous minting error is the 1955 double die penny.

2004 A 20 Bill Value

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

2004 20 Dollar Bill Misprints

20 Dollar Misprint

Claim: New U.S. $10 bills released in 2006 contain a printing error.

2001 20 Dollar Bills Picture

Status:False.

Examples:[Collected via e-mail, 2006]

Origins: After remaining essentially the same in appearance for nearly seventy years, all U.S. currency (except the $1 and $2 bills) has undergone significant design changes since 1996. The $5, $10, $20, $50, and $100 bills were all reissued between 1996 and 2000 with new designs implemented to incorporate advanced

counterfeit-deterring security features, and the U.S. Bureau of Engraving and Printing announced plans to undertake new designs every 7-10 years to stay ahead of currency counterfeiters. Accordingly, starting in 2003, the $10, $20, and $50 bills were redesigned a second time, in this case adding (among other features) subtle background colors to both deter counterfeiting and make the denominations more visually distinctive.

Keeping up with the dates of all these currency changes is not so straightforward, however. Unlike U.S. coins, each of which bears a year indicating when that particular coin was minted, U.S. currency features something known as “series dates.” A series date does not indicate the year a particular bill was printed, but rather the date of the design featured on that bill. That is, if the $5 bill were redesigned in 1929, all subsequent $5 bills issued using that design would be marked “Series 1929,” regardless of when they were actually printed. (When a minor change is made to a bill’s features — such as a substitution of signatures due to the appointment of a new Treasurer of the United States or Secretary of the Treasury — the series year remains the same, but a letter is appended to it. Thus a minor change to “Series 1929” currency would result in bills marked “Series 1929A.”)

Small wonder, then, that some people assumed the 2006 release of newly-redesigned $10 bills bearing a legend reading “Series 2004” was the product of some sort of printing error:

The series date isn’t an error, though. Although the most recent re-designs of the $10, $20, and $50 bills were authorized for 2004, the release of the denominations incorporating these new designs was (as in the previous wave of currency re-designs in 1996-2000) staggered across several years. Thus, although all three denominations bearing the latest designs are technically “Series 2004” bills, the newest $20 bills were first put into circulation at the end of 2003, the new $50 bill was first released at the end of 2004, and the new $10 bill wasn’t issued until March 2006. Confusing, perhaps, but not a mistake as far as the U.S. Bureau of Engraving and Printing is concerned.

Last updated: 17 April 2006

2004 20 Dollar Bill Misprint Worth