My Collection

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Both tools below can keep a list — the star notes you have found, and the coins you own. That list lives in your own browser and never reaches us. There is no account, no login and nothing to sign up for.

How this works, precisely

When you tick “remember this on my device”, the tool writes your list to local storage in your browser. That is a private store belonging to this site on your own machine. It is not a cookie, it is never transmitted with a request, and we have no way of reading it — not from the server, not from an analytics tool, not at all. We do not run analytics of any kind.

The practical consequences are worth knowing before you rely on it:

The list is per browser and per device. Saved on your laptop, it will not appear on your phone.
Clearing your browsing data clears it, as does browsing in a private window. There is no copy anywhere else.
Each tool has a “forget” control that erases its list immediately.

If a list matters to you, write it down somewhere too. We would rather say that than have you lose it. The whole arrangement is described in the privacy policy and the cookie policy.

Your star notes

Look a note up, and add it to the list. The list keeps the run size so you can see at a glance which of your notes came from a short run.

Star note lookup

Star Note Serial Number Lookup

Type the serial number and find out how many notes were printed in that run — straight from the Bureau of Engraving and Printing’s own monthly reports.

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Serial number Spaces or no spaces, star or no star, upper or lower case — all fine. Example: MB 12345678 ★ or l12800001*

Denomination The serial prefix alone does not say which bill it is — the same letters exist on several.

My star notes

Remember this on my device Keeps your list in this browser only (localStorage), so it is still here tomorrow. Nothing is sent anywhere: no account, no sign-up, no advertising cookie.

This is a print run size, not a price. We can tell you how many notes the BEP printed in your note’s run because they published the figure. What a note sells for depends on its condition, on demand for that district and series, and on what a buyer will pay today — none of which is in this data, and none of which we will pretend to know. Collectors treat runs of 640,000 notes or fewer as “short runs”: that threshold is collector convention, not an official BEP category.

Run figures come from the Bureau of Engraving and Printing monthly production reports. Each result links to the exact PDF the figure was read from, so you can check it yourself.

Your coins

Enter what you hold. The counts are remembered, and the total is repriced against the live silver quote every time you come back — so the figure is today’s, not the one from the day you typed it.

Melt value calculator

US Coin Melt Value & Junk Silver Calculator

How much silver or gold is actually in your coins, and what it is worth today.

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Total melt value Metal content at today’s spot

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Remember this on my device Saves your counts in this browser only (localStorage) so the list is still here tomorrow. Nothing is sent anywhere, no account, no cookie for advertising.

This is melt value, not collector value. Many of these coins are worth several times — sometimes hundreds of times — the metal in them. Key dates, mint errors and high grades all trade far above melt, and melting destroys that premium permanently. Treat this number as the floor under your coins, never as what they are worth. Have anything unusual looked at before you sell it by weight.

Three traps this calculator will not fall into, and neither should you:

1942 nickels are two different coins. Only the ones with a large P, D or S above Monticello are 35% silver. A small mintmark beside Monticello, or none, means no silver. All 1943–1945 nickels are silver.
Circulating Bicentennial coins have no silver. The 1776–1976 quarters, halves and dollars in change are copper-nickel. Only the S-mint collector sets are 40% silver.
“Pre-1965 only” is not the whole rule. Modern silver proof sets (1992 onward, and .999 fine from 2019) carry silver in recent dates — they were never released into circulation.

Coin weights and fineness come from the Coinage Act of 1873, the Coinage Act of 1965 (PL 89-81) and 31 U.S.C. § 5112. Figures are an estimate for information only, not an offer to buy or sell and not investment advice.

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