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Serial number lookup · 678 print runs on file

Type the serial number. We’ll tell you which print run it came from, how many were made, and whether that run was short enough to matter.

Star note lookup

Star Note Serial Number Lookup

Type the serial number and find out how many notes were printed in that run — straight from the Bureau of Engraving and Printing’s own monthly reports.

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Serial number Spaces or no spaces, star or no star, upper or lower case — all fine. Example: MB 12345678 ★ or l12800001*

Denomination The serial prefix alone does not say which bill it is — the same letters exist on several.

My star notes

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This is a print run size, not a price. We can tell you how many notes the BEP printed in your note’s run because they published the figure. What a note sells for depends on its condition, on demand for that district and series, and on what a buyer will pay today — none of which is in this data, and none of which we will pretend to know. Collectors treat runs of 640,000 notes or fewer as “short runs”: that threshold is collector convention, not an official BEP category.

Run figures come from the Bureau of Engraving and Printing monthly production reports. Each result links to the exact PDF the figure was read from, so you can check it yourself.

Not sure whether yours is a star note at all? Run both checks on one number — print run and serial pattern — or go straight to the fancy serial number checker.

Metal value, priced this morning

Weight and purity are fixed by law. What moves is the spot price — so that’s what we keep fresh.

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Where every number comes from

Print runs: monthly production reports of the US Bureau of Engraving and Printing — 284 reports, October 2002 to May 2026, public domain under 17 U.S.C. §105.
Coin specifications: the statutes themselves — Coinage Act of 1873, Coinage Act of 1965, 31 U.S.C. §5112 — not dealer price lists.
Spot prices: goldapi.io, cross-checked against a second feed. If the two disagree by more than 1%, we stop showing a price rather than show a wrong one.

Read the full methodology — including what we refuse to tell you, and why.

What’s the note in your hand actually worth?

Star Note Serial Number Lookup

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