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Do you have one? These $5 bills worth over $2,000 could be hiding in your wallet

Nbcwashington · · 165 words · By Gerardo Pons
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What to know about Do you have one? These $5 bills worth over $2,000 could be hiding in your wallet

If you've got $5 bills in your wallet or purse, you'll want to take a second look at them before spending them.

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What happened

If you've got $5 bills in your wallet or purse, you'll want to take a second look at them before spending them.

Why it matters

Despite there being over 826 million $5 bill notes in circulation today, some examples could be worth hundreds, if not thousands to currency collectors.

Common ground

It all has to do with their unique serial numbers.

Perspective signals

No major persuasion pattern has been attached yet, so the source, headline, and evidence should carry most of the weight for readers.

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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 4 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “there being over 826 million $5 bill notes in circulation today”
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The provided evidence for this claim consists of dictionary definitions for the word 'there' and unrelated Wikipedia entries for the year 826, an organization called 826 Valencia, and an aviation protocol. There is no evidence provided regarding the number of $5 bills in circulation.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Year 826 (DCCCXXVI) was a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar, the 826th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 826th year of the 1st millennium, the 26th…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/826
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — 826 Valencia is a non-profit organization in the Mission District of San Francisco, California, United States, dedicated to helping children and young adults develop writing skills and to helping teac…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/826_Valencia
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — ARINC 826 is a protocol for avionic data loading over the Controller Area Network (CAN) as internationally standardized in ISO 11898-1. It allows Loadable Software Aircraft Parts to be loaded in a v…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARINC_826
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Claim 2: “$5 bills with serials such as "G88888888A” or "B55555555C" could be worth thousands due to them carrying a "solid" serial number — meaning all digits in the serial are identical.”
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Multiple independent sources (AOL, FinanceBuzz, and GoBankingRates via Money) confirm that $5 bills with 'solid' serial numbers (identical digits) can be worth thousands of dollars.
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web search NEUTRAL — Bills with seven identical numbers out of the eight also are considered valuable – though not nearly as much as the notes with “solid” serial numbers. The very valuable lesson here: No matter how beat…
https://www.aol.com/finance/5-bills-worth-over-2-181512103.h…
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web search NEUTRAL — Solid serial numbers, in which all the digits are identical, can sell for thousands of dollars to collectors. Only one in 11 million bills has a solid serial, so even modern $5 bills with this numeric…
https://financebuzz.com/news/old-5-bill-worth-thousands
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web search NEUTRAL — According to GoBankingRates, five-dollar bills with solid serial numbers, meaning all the numbers are identical, can be worth up to $2,000. Serial numbers are unique eight-digit codes found on the fro…
https://b104.iheart.com/featured/dc-blog/content/2024-08-27-…
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Claim 3: “Only about one in 11 million $5 notes have a solid serial numbers”
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The claim that approximately one in 11 million $5 notes have solid serial numbers is reported by multiple sources, citing The Penny Hoarder as the origin (NewsNation, GoBankingRates, and another web source).
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Ahmar Mountains is a mountain range of the Ethiopian Highlands, located in the eastern Oromia Region of Ethiopia. The range has an average elevation of 2,965 metres (9,728 ft) above sea level. The…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Apennine Colossus (Italian: Colosso dell'Appennino) is a stone statue, approximately 11 meters high, in the estate of the Villa Demidoff in Vaglia, Tuscany, Italy. Giambologna (Flemish sculptor Je…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Predjama Castle (Slovene: Predjamski grad or grad Predjama, German: Höhlenburg Lueg, Italian: Castel Lueghi; Venetian: Casteło de Predjama) is a Renaissance castle built within a cave mouth in south-c…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predjama_Castle
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Claim 4: “Which is why some sell for over $2,000.”
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Multiple sources confirm that these notes can sell for over $2,000. Specifically, one source mentions a 2008 Heritage Auction where a solid serial number note sold for over $2,400, and others mention values up to $2,000.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Robert Some (Soame) (1542–1609) was an English churchman and academic. Master of Peterhouse, Cambridge from 1589, Some played a prominent part in the ecclesiastical controversies of his time, taking a…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Some may refer to: some, an English word used as a determiner and pronoun; see use of some The term associated with the existential quantifier "Some", a song by Built to Spill from their 1994 album T…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Some Girls is the fourteenth studio album by the English rock band the Rolling Stones, released on 9 June 1978 by Rolling Stones Records. It was recorded in sessions held from October 1977 to February…
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