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In addition to the coins and vest watch chain are a small ring and the Pope John Paul II medallion.
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| Pope John Paul Medallion. Found by Nick A. |
Thanks for sharing Nick.
What makes this serial number special (or not)?
- 00881144 contains 4 pairs together. Only 0.0073% of 8-digit numbers have this combination.
- 00881144 has 4 unique digits. In 9.3% of 8-digit numbers, there are 4 or fewer unique digits.
- 00881144's digits sum to 26. In 12% of 8-digit numbers, the digits sum to at most 26.
You can use this link to check your own serial numbers.
Fancy Serial Number Checker | My Currency Collection
There are a variety of types of serial numbers that can be worth good money - some quite a bit of money.
Solid Serial Number – All One Number
Low Serial Number – Two Digits or Less
Trailing Zero Serial Number – Seven Zeros after Number
Ladder Serial Number – Sequence of Consecutive Numbers
Radar Serial Number – Reads the Same Both Ways
Flipper Serial Number – Reads the Same Upside Down
Repeater Serial Number – Two Numbers Repeated
Binary Serial Number – All Zeros and Ones
Stand Alone Serial Number – Number Surrounded by Zeros
Here is a link for more information about "fancy" serial numbers.
Fancy Serial Numbers and Collectible Bills Worth Lots of Money (varietyerrors.com)
Star numbers are collected by many people too. Those have an asterisk instead of a letter after the serial number. They are printed as replacements when errors were made on the original printing.
I enjoy checking serial numbers and have a found a few nice collectible bills, but nothing very valuable. If you get a hundred singles, it would not be unusual to find one or two star bills.
Sometimes you'll get sequentially numbered bills in change. For example you might get 12748901 and 12748902. I've noticed one place in particular that often gives sequentially numbered bills in change. Some people collect those too. When they are still in order, they are still in good shape too.
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There are probably some beaches where you've never seen many people and maybe you've detected them a few times over the years and didn't find much of anything, so you wrote them off. Everything you've seen said to you that there is nothing there.
Last year one beach that never produced anything very interesting other than a few coins and maybe a rare spike or something really produced. One day that beach, which I had detected many times in the past, unexpectedly produced tons of modern finds along with a few very old finds. I wasn't really surprised by the old finds, which I always figured should be there, but the number of modern coins and rings really surprised me because it isn't a busy location and I've never seen many people there. You see an occasional fisherman or beach walker, but that is about it. I'm still scratching my head trying to figure out why so many modern items suddenly popped up there. I know the beach conditions were unusual, but still I don't know where all the coins and things came from. One possibility is that it was a very popular location a few decades ago. I know it hasn't been very busy in the last twenty or so years. I guess another possibility is that the sand with all the modern finds was brought from somewhere else at one time. I just don't know.
Anyhow, the message is, don't totally neglect an area because it doesn't look good or hasn't produced much in the past. Surprising things can happen. If you've written off certain beaches, take the time to check them out once in a while. You don't need to spend a lot of time checking out at it - just enough to find out if something has changed or something is starting to happen.
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Finally we have open borders so viruses, spys, terrorists, gangs and drug dealers can freely enter, while around 80 billion dollars/yr. is sent back to Mexico, not counting the drug money, much of which goes to China for the fentanyl that kills nearly 100,000 people per year in the US, while our national debt, much of which is held by China climbs. Yeahhh!
CDC: Drug Overdose Deaths in 2020 on Track to Break Record (nymag.com)
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There are some negative low tides today, but the surf is only two or three feet.
Happy hunting,
TreasureGuide@comcast.net