INDIVIDUAL MCP TOOL

list_serial_patterns

The 17 fancy serial number patterns collectors look for on US bills (ladder, solid, radar, repeater, binary, birthday, low serial and the rest): a strict definition, an example, how many of the 100,000,000 possible eight-digit serials match, and the odds.

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LIVE ENDPOINT

https://bigballi.com/SerialHunt/mcp

No auth detected

Connect to this endpoint to inspect the live schema for list_serial_patterns and invoke it with your own arguments.

Indexed input schema

{}

Risk classification

Inferred read-only · medium confidence · heuristic, not a guarantee.

No write-capable action terms were found; this is not proof that invocation has no side effects.

Parent server

bigballi.com

CONNECT WITH APPROVAL

Client installation

Review this server and its permissions before adding it. Secret placeholders must be set locally.

Codex

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.serialhunt]
url = "https://bigballi.com/SerialHunt/mcp"
enabled = true

Claude Code

.mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "serialhunt": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://bigballi.com/SerialHunt/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Claude Desktop

Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector

Name: serialhunt
Remote MCP URL: https://bigballi.com/SerialHunt/mcp

Add this remote URL as a custom connector in Claude Desktop. Availability depends on the user plan and workspace policy.

Cursor

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "serialhunt": {
      "url": "https://bigballi.com/SerialHunt/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Visual Studio Code

.vscode/mcp.json

Add to Visual Studio Code

{
  "servers": {
    "serialhunt": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://bigballi.com/SerialHunt/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Generic MCP

Client-specific MCP configuration

{
  "name": "serialhunt",
  "transport": "streamable-http",
  "url": "https://bigballi.com/SerialHunt/mcp"
}

MCP Inspector

Run the official MCP Inspector locally and enter the indexed Streamable HTTP endpoint.

Related tools

check_serial — Whether one US paper money note is worth keeping, from its serial number: the Federal Reserve Bank, the series (worked out from the serial when it is not given), every collector pattern in the eight digits with its exact odds, and for a star (replacement) note the print run it came from with the number of notes printed and its rarity band.
find_star_runs — The smallest US star note print runs on record, smallest first (top 10), optionally for one denomination, series or Federal Reserve Bank: the notes printed, the rarity band and the serial range to watch for.
get_coverage — Which denominations and series the star note print run figures cover, with the Federal Reserve districts and number of star runs on record for each, the sources, the date of the last update and any known gap.