• Registered: 2005-03-07

Topic: Money that's worth more money than it's worth

I saw a news story last night about a twenty dollar bill that's "worth $25,000."  It's worth $25K because a Dole Banana sticker accidentally was woven into the bill, becoming a part of the currency.  For its rareness, it's been appraised at, once again folks, $25K.

What the f@#%!

Okay, what was even weirder, was that the news anchors were, or seemed to be, impressed by the bill, like, "Wow...Man, I wish I had one of those...Ha, ha, ha."   

In all fairness, I guess I wish I had a $20 bill worth $25,000, too.  But I think it'd be an ethical dilemma for me to sell it to anyone for more than $20.  Actually, I wish I had it so I could just wipe my ass with it and laugh: Muhahaha!

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  • Registered: 2005-12-01

Re: Money that's worth more money than it's worth

I'd sell all my 20 dollar bills for half that much.

Just don't pay me in 20s or else I'd be doing it forever.

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  • Registered: 2005-11-13

Re: Money that's worth more money than it's worth

It's worth whatever someone will pay for it, as far as I'm concerned.   I know that production errors are valuable for coin collectors (I used to be one).  Here's a coin dealer website with prices for some "errors":

http://www.alscoins.com/indexpg11.html

I haven't heard so much about production errors for paper money, maybe that's why the Banana Dollar is worth even more.