Status Update: Rare ‘watermelon’ sells for $2 million at auction

Santa Ana-based auction house Stack’s Bowers Galleries will offer a rare $1,000 bill in late October at an expo in Baltimore. The “Grand Watermelon” treasury note was the first-ever paper bill to break the $1 million mark when it last sold in 2005, according to Stack’s Bowers. The auction house expects the bill will command between $1.25 million and $1.75 million when it goes up for sale Oct. 25. (Courtesy of Stack’s Bowers Galleries)
The 1890 $1,000 Treasury note k