serial number

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Each bears a unique serial number and since 1950, winners have been prohibited from selling them on the open market without first offering them back to the organization for one dollar.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 12, 2026

“There’s no unique serial number on a load of lobster meat,” Burroughs said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 29, 2025

The unique serial number on the bank note was the authentication he needed to ensure he was handing the cash over to the right person.

From BBC • Sep. 13, 2025

What they hoped was the famed Lockheed Electra 10E Special, serial number 1055, turned out to be an “unfortunate” geologic formation, according to a company statement.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 8, 2024

And they came to a shed where a corporal with only one arm and one eye wrote the name and serial number of each prisoner in a big, red ledger.

From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut