What is my dollar bill worth?
Most people check the date and stop there. The date is usually the least useful thing on a bill. Seal color, star notes, serial number patterns, and printing errors are what separate a note worth face value from one worth several hundred dollars.
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- Reads the series, seal type, and signatures from a photo
- Flags star notes and collectible serial number patterns
- Estimates a value range by condition
- Works on US and world banknotes
The four checks that find almost every valuable bill
Check the seal color
Green is an ordinary Federal Reserve Note. Blue is a silver certificate, red is a United States Note, and brown or yellow means a wartime emergency issue worth many times face value.
Look for a star
A star in place of the last character of the serial number marks a replacement note. Every star note is scarcer than its regular counterpart, and short print runs carry real premiums.
Read the serial as a pattern
All the same digit, running in sequence, reading the same backwards, or a long string of leading zeros. Any of those can be worth hundreds on a bill printed last year.
Judge the condition honestly
A single fold moves a note out of uncirculated and can halve its value. Tilt it against a light at a shallow angle and count the creases before you price it.
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Bill Values
Value guides for US paper money by series and denomination. Silver certificates, red seal notes, gold certificates, and modern bills, priced by condition.
23 guidesSerial Numbers
The serial number is the fastest way to find a valuable bill in ordinary change. Star notes, solids, ladders, radars, repeaters, and low serials explained.
6 guidesError Notes
Printing errors turn ordinary bills into collectibles. Ink smears, off-center printing, mismatched serials, gutter folds, and more, priced by type.
6 guidesWorld Currency
Work out what currency you are holding and what it is worth. Guides to German marks, Zimbabwe dollars, old pesos, pounds, lira, francs, and more.
8 guidesGuides
How to grade a banknote, spot a counterfeit, store a collection properly, read Federal Reserve district letters, and sell without getting shortchanged.
6 guidesEvery US bill value guide
- 1976 $2 Bill
- 1953 $2 Red Seal
- 1963 $2 Red Seal
- 1928 $2 Red Seal
- 1935 $1 Silver Certificate
- 1957 $1 Silver Certificate
- 1934 $5 Silver Certificate
- 1953 $5 Red Seal
- 1963 $5 Red Seal
- 1963 $1 Bill
- 1950 $20 Bill
- 1934 $20 Bill
- 1934 $100 Bill
- 1969 $50 Bill
- 1985 $20 Bill
- 1988 $100 Bill
- 1899 $1 Black Eagle
- 1923 $1 Horse Blanket
- 1928 Gold Certificate
- Hawaii Brown Seal Notes
- North Africa Yellow Seal
- 1918 $2 Battleship
- 1899 $5 Indian Chief