

currency currently being produced (The current two-dollar bill obverse design dates from 1928, while the reverse appeared in 1976). The one-dollar bill has the oldest overall design of all U.S. president (1789–1797), George Washington, based on the Athenaeum Portrait, a 1796 painting by Gilbert Stuart, is currently featured on the obverse, and the Great Seal of the United States is featured on the reverse. The United States one-dollar bill ($1) has been the lowest value denomination of United States paper currency since the discontinuation of U.S. ( July 2019) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Please help to improve this article by introducing more precise citations. And another set of nine $5 bills with serial numbers #E00000011 through #E000000099 is selling for $1,800.This article includes a list of general references, but it lacks sufficient corresponding inline citations. For example, one three note set totaling $35 with the serial number K00000000A is priced at $16,500. Serious money mavens can buy sets of fancy serial numbers for thousands of dollars on websites like. These can go for as much as $1,300. A "radar" is a palindrome, like 35299253, those only go for $20-40, and "repeaters" are notes with two blocks of the same four digits, like 41884188. Solid numbers, for example, are made of the same digits- like 88888888-and can go for an upwards of $3,000. Then there are "ladders," or numbers going in sequence like 12345678. OK, GET YOUR WALLETS AND TAKE OUT YOUR WAD OF ONES. Undis breaks down the different categories that makes serial number "fancy" on his website. "You see something like a super radar, and your head says you just gotta have it."Ĭommon fancy numbers are often very low numbers like those found on newly released notes.įor example, the new $100 –to be released on Oct 8.-will have a serial number of 00000001 that, experts estimate, could go for $10,000 to $15,000.īut aside from low numbers, there are a variety of different combinations coveted by currency collectors. "If you look at a dollar bill, the number can just jump out at you," Dave Undis, founder of, a website that buys, sells and trades fancy serial numbers, told The Boston Globe. "Fancy" serial numbers can go for tens of thousands of dollars-depending on how rare the combination is. But currency collectors do-and some are willing to pay big bucks for an especially unusual number. Most people don't even notice the serial number printed on their dollars.

Your money could be worth more than you think, thanks to eight tiny numbers.
