- [Narrator] If your
wallet in your back pocket, you could be sitting on a
fortune and not even know it. Countries all of the
world like to print notes or cost coins that are
in very small amounts or they make little
mistakes during the printing or molding process that lead to your notes and coins being slightly
different from usual. Guess what? These notes and coins are collectable. If you have them in your
wallet, there's someone who will pay you for them
and not just pocket change. Here's our list of ten ways you can spot rare valuable money in your wallet. Amazing. Number ten: Mistakes on American Coins. Around 13 billion coins
are minted in the US every year, but it's difficult to process and sometimes mistakes are made. If you can find a coin
with a mistake on it, that's where the rarity is
and that's where the money is. Here is a nickel from 2005
with a bison engraved on it. An error by the minting
machine led to 900 of them looking like the bison had a
spear stuck in it's stomach. These change hands for about $1,250 today. Also, if you've got one of
these 2004 Wisconsin quarters with four leaves on the
corn husk instead of three, you've actually got $300
rather than 25 cents. Here's another one. A 2005 Kansas quarter, where
they accidentally engraved in God We Rust, rather than Trust. Then on this dollar coin from
2005, they forgot to write In God We Trust on it all together. These coins sell for over $100 each. Look out for this one also. A printing error making
this penny from 1999 led to a wider gap between
the A and the M in America. These coins are worth $500 bucks now. My advice is to keep your eyes peeled. You never know what you may find. Number nine: The New British Fiver. In October 2016, the
Bank of England caused the nationwide craze,
while launching a new five pound note into circulation. These Fivers, as us Brits
call them, are smaller than before and made of a
polymer that's hard wearing and hard to forge. Collectors scrambled to
find the ones with the low serial numbers. The first batch have the prefix AA01. So if you found one of
those, it's definitely worth more than five pounds. Another one with the serial number AA01, followed by six fours, sold
on Ebay for over 60,000. Elsewhere a Fiver with a
serial number AA01 000017 sold to a collector for over 4,000 pounds. Also James Bond fans are
paying over 5,000 pounds on Ebay for notes with
007 at the end of the serial number. Even rifle fans are shelling
out for an AK47 notes. If you're wondering where
number AA01 000001 is, I'm afraid it was given to the Queen. Oh, and another interesting
thing to look out for for the polymer five pound note, is a small very visible
engraving of Jane Austin, four rare limited
edition Jane Austin notes were released which are
estimated to be worth around 50,000 pounds each. The tiny portraits were
designed by micro engraver Graham Short and as I'm making this video, one such note is still out
there waiting to be found. Number eight: Mistakes on British Coins. Sure the Americans have
made a few mistakes while minting their coins, but
the Brits are no better. Take this 50 pence coin commemorating the London Olympics in 2012. Designers tweaked the
original design to make the swimmer a bit more
visible but not before six hundred of the original
coins were released into the system. The invisible swimmer coin
fetch around 3,000 pounds today. Also, in 2008, the minters
forgot to put the date on this 20 pence coin. These dateless coins sell
for around 200 pounds today but it's not just simple design errors that are valuable. As back in 1971, they
even managed to mint coins on the wrong metal. British 2p's are normally
copper but a machine error sawed a two pence design
engraved on the nickel usually used for ten pence pieces. If you find one of these silver 2p's, you'll end up with over
1,300 pounds in your pocket. That's over 65,000 times the
value of the coin face itself. Number seven: Special
Edition British Coins. When us Brits can actually
mint our coins properly, we produce coins to
commemorate special events and anniversaries. Usually there are only a
relatively low quantity of these coins, which
makes them sought after by collectors and valuable
if you come across them. This is a 2011, 50 pence coin, celebrate the 250th anniversary
of Kew Botanical Gardens in London. 210,000 of these coins were made, compared to the seven
million that were produced for special 50 P coins
according to this graph. A Kew Gardens 50 pence is
actually worth 50 pounds today. Or how about this. Here's a two pound coin
designed to celebrate the life of Charles Dickens. It's got all the titles
of his books written on it in really tiny writing. If you've got one of these, you'll have great expectations of
selling it for 20 pounds. Alternatively, this is a two pound coin celebrating the 400th
anniversary of Guy Fawkes' attempt to blow up the
houses of Parliament in 1605, back when we celebrated
that sort of thing. The value of this coin
has exploded to around 16 pounds today. Number six: Special Edition Euro Coins. If you're in the Euro zone, you can get into the fun too. The currency may not have been around for hundreds of years, but there are rare,
special edition euro coins that can fetch a good amount,
even though they're not official countries of the EU. Vatican City and Monaco have both released commemorative euro coins. The one from the Vatican
City celebrates the Catholic Churches 2005
International Youth Day and is now worth about 100 euros. Alternatively, the Monaco coin features a picture of Princess
Grace, who used to be the film actress, Grace Kelly. If you find one of them,
you could swap it for around 300 euros. Then there's this rather
funky looking five euro coin from Germany, known as
the blue planet coin, because of the blue ring
and transparent appearance. If you're lucky enough
to find one of these, they're worth around 35 euros now. I'd keep it and look at it. Number five: The 1943 Copper Penny. Most of the valuable American coins are the mistaken ridden
ones I showed you earlier, however there is one special coin that's probably the most
sought after in America. Every one knows penny
coins are made from copper? Right? Well, during World War II,
all the copper in America was needed for the war effort, so in 1943, when they needed new pennies, they made them out of steel. That is except for about 40 pennies, which they still made from copper. These copper pennies with
Abraham Lincoln on the face are now worth between $10,000
and $1,000,000 dollars depending on their condition. These coins still turn
up in general circulation from time to time, so keep your eyes peeled
for the 1943 copper penny. Number Four: Mistakes on US Banknotes. Something you may not know
about America banknotes is that it takes three
passes with the printer to finish them and they're
printed in sheets of 36. That means if the printers
aren't working properly, it can lead to some pretty
interesting mistakes. Of course, these mistakes are worth money. If you ever find a banknote
that doesn't look quite right, well it could be your lucky day. Check this dollar bill where the paper was accidentally folded
before the third printing. That's worth about $500 today. Or this one, where the
printers got misaligned, so you get half of one bill
and half of the next one. That's worth about $600 bucks. That's a lot of dollar. Number Three: Rare US Banknotes. The most valuable banknotes in the US are the 1890 grand watermelon
1,000 dollar bill, which sold at auction
for $3,200,000 in 2014. The second most valuable is the red seal $1,000 bill from 1891, which
fetched $2,500,000 in 2013. Then there are dollar
bills with red seals. They used to be relatively common though and were only phased out in the mid 90s. You probably don't have
any of those sitting in your wallet right now, but why not ask your
parents or grandparents what they've got laying around. One valuable note you
may have on you right now is the haunted note. If you've got a dollar
bill with the number 666 hidden in it's serial number, than some devil may give
you 20 bucks for it on Ebay. Number Two: Trial Coins and
the Nelson Mandela Coin. Wherever you are in the
world, there are examples of rare notes getting into
the general flow of money. If you find some money that looks unusual, it's always worth checking out what it is. In South Africa, every time
there's a special event, the government likes
to mint a special coin. This is a five round coin commemorating Nelson Mandela's 90th
birthday back in 2008. Depending on quality, some of these coins change hands for up to $1,000 today. The amazing thing is this
coin isn't even super rare. Five million of them were printed. People just love Mandela so
much they kept their coins as a souvenir, taking
them out of circulation and driving up their value to collectors and back to the UK where a one pound coin, which isn't even legal
tender, is worth over 100 times more than it's
legitimate counterpart. You see, in preparation
for launching the new 12 sided one pound coin, which contains features
making it much more difficult to counterfeit, around 200,000 trial one pound coins were introduced. A royal mint representative
said they were given to industry stakeholders for
the purpose of calibrating or upgrading coin handling equipment ahead of the coin's
introduction in March 2017. These coins aren't even legal tender, but they include the word trial on them. The ones with the 2016
date have been selling for over 200 pounds. Number One: Serial Numbers. Where the real action is in collecting American banknotes, is the serial number. Collectors will pay fortunes
for interesting looking serial numbers. To find out if those
eight digits on your bill are worth something, check out the numbers on your notes. If they're really low,
maybe you've got a winner. A $100 bill with a serial number 00000001 is worth around $15,000. Also look for solid
groups of the same number. A five dollar bill with eight threes on it is for sale for around $13,000. Also a dollar with the number nine repeated seven times,
followed by the number five, sold for $1,500. Look for forward or backward
runs of the numbers too, or palindromes like 12211221. Collectors love them. Otherwise, look for distinctive numbers. One of the most sought
after serial numbers is known as the pie note; 31415927. Finally, there are star notes. When something has gone amiss in the printing of a note, they put a little star at the end of the serial number to
signify that the note was printed again. These are very rare
and collectors will pay big money for them. So remember to always check your change. You never know what fortunes
you may be sitting on. It could be time to cash in. Have you ever found a rare note or coin in your wallet? Did we help you spot one? I'd like to know. Leave a comment. Also, if you enjoyed this video, please make sure to drop
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