Yeah, I honestly couldn't care less about this so-called "error." It's a bunch of nonsense, a manufactured piece of tripe. I'd give you $20 for it, only because it could buy a pizza. Let me be clear: this is not an error at all. This is something someone intentionally made, abusing the machinery. It is not worth anything above face value - and certainly not the premiums it has/will sell for. This ranks right down there with "dime struck on nail," and "1913 Liberty nickel" for things that sell for ridiculous prices but which have zero interest for me.
@Mountain Man https://www.cointalk.com/threads/what-does-this-represent-just-for-fun.370089/#post-5131620
DALLAS – A $20 bill mysteriously printed on top of an ordinary fruit sticker sold Friday for $25,300, an auction company official said.
@physics-fan3.14 "Let me be clear: this is not an error at all. This is something someone intentionally made, abusing the machinery. It is not worth anything above face value - and certainly not the premiums it has/will sell for.” Please tell me how this was accomplished intentionally.
IIRC there was an art house auction in NY(?) where a blank canvas titled 'Art at it's Essence' sold for several thousand dollars. Fools indeed!
Intentional or not, it made it through quality control. It could have been someone at the paper mill messing around. There’s no way it could have been inadvertent. Even if someone was eating a banana during the printing process, how many of us peel off the label?
It was not at the Crane mill. The sticker was applied between the second print (intaglio face plate) and third print (seals and serial number) at the BEP. My theory is that it was a joke that the prankster expected QC to find but it slipped through.
I agree it wouldn't make sense for it to be done on accident... as stated above most people don't take the sticker off of the peel and why do it in a bill making facility where it is bound to end up somewhere it's not supposed to be.
I suspect it went something like this. There were two employees in the inspection department at BEP. We will call them Jim and Dwight. Jim is always playing pranks on Dwight. Jim gets his girlfriend who works on the numbering press to put a banana sticker on a sheet of notes that she knows Dwight will examine. We will call her Pam. Pam doesn't know that Dwight and his cousin Mose were out shining possums the night before on their beet farm. Mose shined the million candle power spotlight directly into Dwight's eyes causing a blind spot in his vision. Dwight missed the banana sticker and the note got out into circulation. It is found by a kid in Cleveland. When it comes to the attention of their manager, Michael, that the kid who found it made lots of money off it, he tries to brainstorm with Jim and Dwight on ways to make more of them. Their meeting is interrupted by a call from Michael's boss. (She will be known as Jan). She is getting heat from her boss, David Wallace, and she wants to know from Michael how they are going to prevent this from happening in the future. With their money-making plans thwarted, Jim, Dwight and Michael head off to Poor Richard's where they discover their fellow employee, Creed, jamming with a Grass Roots cover band.
I didn’t think to look at the printing on the sticker. I can see that this shows in what part of the process it happened. Considering that the notes are serialized, I’m sure that management at the BEP would be able to trace which employee, or group of employees, would have been in a position to put the sticker on the note. I would be curious whether personnel actions were taken. After all, it made the news, and would cause upper management to question their processes.
