Bananas

https://www.foxnews.com/lifestyle/20-bill-with-banana-sticker-selling-for-upwards-125g

When I checked several hours ago, the bid was at $210,000. Cannot tell what the winning bid was, but shows auction ended.

I bought my house for less than the expected winning bid and it's just hard for me to believe that some people have that kind of money to spend on something like this.

The winning bid? $396,000 plus buyers premium. Sheesh.

Interesting.
The current link says the owner will actively respond to any offers more than $514,800.

The Guardian article suggested $60,000. A lot of deep pockets down south (is all i can say).

My source was directly from the Auction House. Heritage Auctions.

Quote: "BluHawk"​Interesting.
​The current link says the owner will actively respond to any offers more than $514,800.
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​Very quick profit if he gets it.

I mean....why?

I mean....why?

For exactly the same reason that Nadal wears a $750,000 Richard Miele watch - they have the moolah and there is always a market.
Not sure if I would have or not done the same if money was abundant.
Nicholas Cage got the 1st edition of Superman comic for $150,000.
We are all purveyors of fine things in life

"Nicholas Cage got the 1st edition of Superman comic for $150,000."

Not bad. Over $3,000,000 profit for the actor if he got one in decent shape.
I don't collect comic books & cannot imagine paying a high price for one (though I do appreciate that first editions in great shape will command a high price).

"I mean....why?"
- yeah, I agree with "BluHawk," because they (the rich new owners) can afford it. And I will just add that it is almost certain that they will make a profit. The BEP prints billions of banknotes & one will see even pretty common change-overs, star replacements (millions) go for fairly high prices. Several CDN change-overs & replacements are 100 to 1000 times more uncommon (10,000 or less) but we seldom see our prices soar into 6 figures. We rarely see the demand for our CDN notes that we see for US currency.

Why?
Because the US has the largest collector base in the world. In fact, US collector demand is a much larger influence on CDN Book Values than CDN demand. I have heard this time & time again & believe it to be true since it is harder & harder to buy early BOC series right now due to that crazy demand. It is very likely that US collector demand also influences most other nations' Book Values too. (Australian currency experienced this high US demand drive up all their older pre-decimal series years ago).

The "Delmonte note" is a "one-of-a-kind error" (likely won't see another) so the seller can literally make a small fortune on it when he/she resells. I'm not saying its everyone's 'cup of tea' but now that its jumped to such prominence (it's future is made).