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Featured in Domain Arrivals · 2026-08-13

Serial Value, the honest bill-serial checker

serialvalue.com ↗ · Useful Tools · score 82.0
Open: public page gives enough substance to understand the site $Paid: pricing, booking, ecommerce, subscription, or paid access is visible ADAds: visible ad load or ad-supported content Pretty: notable design, copy, craft, or presentation Pro: polished, finished-feeling, serious, or operationally mature Niche: specific audience, workflow, or unusually focused use case Human: personal, local, community, civic, handmade, or real-person signal !Suspicious: scammy, spammy, trust theater, finance fog, or credibility concern

A US currency lookup tool that estimates whether a bill’s serial number is worth more than face value.

Why it surfaced

Serial Value resists the usual collector-site excitement: it says most bills are worth exactly what is printed on them, then gives condition-scaled ranges when a pattern may command a premium. Its model counts rarity across issued serials, includes the denomination and the note’s condition, and explains why a folded fancy serial can lose most of its value.

Thirty Patents for the Grave

August 13’s newborn domains include 30 safety-coffin patents, lost notices for false teeth and a box of hair, short films playing in 100 Tokyo taxis, and a Queensland river view arranged gauge by gauge downstream.

This is one of 1,000 discoveries in the 2026-08-13 Domain Arrivals issue.