Rare $1,000 ‘Grand Watermelon’ Bill Auctioned Off For $2.04 Million

BALTIMORE, Md. (WJZ) — A rare $1,000 bill named for the large green zeroes on its back sold for over $2 million in an auction Thursday night.
Stack’s Bowers Galleries sold the “Grand Watermelon” note to an anonymous buyer during the third part of the Joel R. Anderson Collection sale at the 2018 Winter Whitman Expo in Baltimore.Front of the "Grand Watermelon" billBack of the "Grand Watermelon" billIt was the first ever paper bill to break the $1 million mark when it was la