Featured in Domain Arrivals · 2026-08-13
Serial Value, the honest bill-serial checker
A US currency lookup tool that estimates whether a bill’s serial number is worth more than face value.
Why it surfacedSerial 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.
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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.