These $1 Bills Could Be Worth $150,000 — Here's How to Check If One Is in Your Wallet Right Now

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If you person a fewer $1 bills lying around, you could beryllium sitting connected hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Thanks to a U.S. Bureau of Engraving and Printing error, 2 batches of $1 bills printed successful November 2014 and July 2016 could now beryllium worthy up to $150,000 a pop.

According to nan individual finance tract Wealthy Nickel, nan petition for nan first batch was sent to a Washington, D.C. printing installation successful 2014, but nan aforesaid petition was someway besides made successful July 2016 and printed successful Fort Worth, Texas. This resulted successful bills pinch copy serial numbers being sent into circulation earlier nan correction was noticed.

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There are an estimated six cardinal pairs of nan bills presently successful circulation, though only 9 pairs person been matched backmost together to date.

According to USA Today, rate collectors are consenting to salary anyplace from $20,000 to $150,000 for a brace of nan erroneous batches.

If you're nan fortunate proprietor of 1 of nan bills, nan "Series" day (which is adjacent to nan photograph of George Washington) will opportunity "Series 2013" pinch a "B" Federal Reserve Seal supra and a serial number ending pinch a "*" symbol. The scope will autumn successful betwixt B00000001* – B00250000* aliases B03200001*-B09600000*.

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If you judge you ain 1 (or a pair) of nan bills, you tin taxable it to an online database called Project 2013b, which attempts to catalog each of nan misprinted bills and yet lucifer them each together.

To date, complete 36,000 bills person been cataloged.

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