RareBillStar note lookup
Type the serial number printed on any US bill. It is checked in your browser — nothing is sent anywhere.
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Checking a stack?
Typing serials one at a time is fine for a bill or two. RareBill for iPhone reads the serial with the camera, so you can rip through a bank strap without touching the screen — and keeps every find in a collection.
What this checks
Star notes are replacement notes, printed to swap out bills damaged during production, and they are printed in far smaller numbers than ordinary notes. Fancy serials are patterns collectors pay extra for — radars that read the same both ways, solids, ladders, low numbers. Both are decided by arithmetic on the serial, so the answer above is exact, not a guess.
Print-run figures come from the Bureau of Engraving and Printing's own monthly production reports for 2002 onward, plus a collector compilation covering 1935–2009 — 26,000 runs in total. Values are not shown here because they depend on condition; the app gives ranges with links to current listings.