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One man’s trash is another man’s war treasure.

Queens rubbish remover Nick DiMola is sitting on $2,000 in US bonds from World War II — relics he unknowingly rescued while cleaning out a Brooklyn estate.

DiMola saves thousands of curious castoffs in a Ridgewood warehouse. So when the descendants of Mario Anthony DeVito chucked his belongings, DiMola took home a pile of junk.

He later opened a box and discovered a spotless stack of 20 war bonds.

Today, they’re worth $100 apiece, but only the original owner whose name appears on the bonds — or beneficiaries of his will — can redeem them.

Collectors, however, are forking over about $50 each for such bits of Americana.

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