The $2 bill

[Drm50]

I don't keep the new ones and have had cashiers do a double take on them. Leading up to the last election I was given a $1,000,000 bill. It looked real on front, on back was politicians picture and political agenda.
I carry a little folding money for lunch and such in a business card money clip in my shirt pocket. I was at a Stop & Go getting a drink and clerk was one of those tattooed, rings thru the nose, bones in ears type. I paid for my drink and guy saw that bill in money clip. He said sir is that real? I told
him it wasn't. Missed my chance to spend it. He probably couldn't make change for it anyway.

 

[max]

I have heard of local companies paying their employees in $2.00 bills. It lets the local merchants know of the importance of the company to the community.

 

[CAJUNLAWYER]

I LOVE $2 bills. I also LOVE the dollar gold coin. Both are hard to get these days. Years ago before the indian casino opened a local bank kept a large supply of Eisenhower dollar coins that were used in local poker games together with $5 and $20 bills. Since the Casino however the private games all use their own chips-which is better as you're not playing for real money any more

 

[STCM(SW)]

Back in 1961 in Key West Navy Sonar school we were all paid in $2 bills to show the city how much there economy was supported by the Navy.

 

[kamloops67]

I used to spend weekends in Washington state when i lived closer to the border
Used to leave tips in Canadian notes , a couple times i watched the reaction of the server discovering the bill on the table
A mix between pleasure and puzzlement topped off with a nod of satisfaction
We do have cool looking cash

 

[Lee Barner]

here is a 1928 $2 bill I found in my mom's stuff when she went to the nursing home back in 98. lee

 

[bigchuck83]

I've carried a two dollar bill in my wallet for years.


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[NYlakesider]

Back in 1961 in Key West Navy Sonar school we were all paid in $2 bills to show the city how much there economy was supported by the Navy.

A few years back one of the big mouth groups in Albany was going to show off their power. On one particular day they were only going to use $2s, the Susan B Anthony or possibly the Sacagawea for all their purchases.

They tried it or at least said they tried it, nothing was ever heard about it again, no merchant or representative of the group boasting about how good it worked!

 

[Absalom]

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This man wrote the Declaration of Independence and much of the Constitution, and, as President, made the Louisiana Purchase! And sent out the Lewis and Clark Expedition.

And his reward is to be seen on the unusual $2.00 bill?! Oh,well: he and his home made it onto the nickel coin.

And then, compare that to William McKinley, who made it onto the $500 bill, even though the only thing most people remember about him is that he had the good grace to get himself shot so Teddy Roosevelt could become president

I think at the time the portraits were chosen, nobody could foresee that the two-dollar bill would turn into such an orphan as far as acceptance and use by the public are concerned.

I'd happily see a lot more in circulation. They're twice as efficient as one-dollar bills; I've never quite gotten our infatuation with wads of relatively low-value paper.

 

[challer61]

Clearly Thomas Jefferson, as I attended UVA. We keep them on hand

I wonder how many Americans can tell you whose picture is on them, without reading the bill?

Today, about all the publicity this truly great President gets is scorn for a possible intimate relationship with one of his slave girls, Sally Hemmings. What a shame!

This man wrote the Declaration of Independence and much of the Constitution, and, as President, made the Louisiana Purchase! And sent out the Lewis and Clark Expedition.

And his reward is to be seen on the unusual $2.00 bill?! Oh,well: he and his home made it onto the nickel coin.

 

[delcrossv]

Granny gave two dollar bills for Christmas.

So does my mother in law.

 

[delcrossv]

.... I've never quite gotten our infatuation with wads of relatively low-value paper.

Well, the Feds have gotten rid of high value paper so as to make it easier for them to track our purchases.

 

[Recusant]

A few years back one of my high school students handed me a $2 bill and asked if it was real. She had never seen one and thought it was fake. A customer at the restaurant she worked at had given it to her as a tip.

 

[BearBio]

I no longer have a coin collection since my "white trash" brother stole it and bought candy but I have a box full of oddities (A Roman coin I bought at a garage sale, "gold" dollars, $2 bills, etc.). My brother also stole some $2 bills my dad had marked "Hawaii" from WWII, that he picked up on his way back from Burma. He also stole my dad's Flying Tiger flight jacket from the war!

 

[Camster]

For some reason, when I receive a two buck bill or a buck coin, I keep it. Same for those state quarters, until I had a full set for each grandchild.

The only currency I actually remember the details of receiving, was also the smallest denomination, a shiny new 1-Rappen coin. It was given to me 30 years ago, along with a handful of peanuts, by Samichlaus and Schmutzli (with donkey carrying sacks of peanuts), as we were entering our local Migros grocery store in Aarau, Switzerland. It was the only time I'd seen the diminutive coin, and it was eventually removed from circulation. I still have the Rappen coin, whose value was a hundredth of a Swiss Franc, or about a penny.

As usual when in Switzerland, I had my camera with me and took a picture of this Christmas tradition.

I used to keep them as well as old silver certificates. Fast forward thirty or forty years, and I wish that I had spent them or deposited them into a CD.
All are gone now. Mostly as tips.

 

[Tubbsy]

I've got probably 4-5 of them one with the red seal, along with dozens of dollar coins, half dollars, a couple mercury dimes, a whole bag of wheat pennies, and one very old indian head penny....

 

[Dashriprock]

My son has a quilted advent calendar with pockets for the dates. When he was little I'd fill it with toys.

These days I fill it with money. Went to the bank recently and got fresh, crisp $2 bills, SBA dollar coins and Sacagawea dollar coins. Teller then told me another teller had just taken in "a bunch of really big dollar coins."

So I made my way over and scored 16 Eisenhower dollars, 1971s, 1974s, and some bicentennial 1976s. The boy pulled his first one out of yesterday's pocket and was right impressed! Took it to school and the other kids all thought it was very neat -- never seen one.

 

[Chubbs103]

I've carried a two dollar bill in my wallet for years.


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So do I.



So did Thomas Magnum.

 

[charlie sherrill]

The banks here have plenty of two dollar bills and are happy to get rid of them. I have been using them for restaurant tips for many years. I like the reactions I get when tipping in a Chinese restaurant. I recently gave one to a Chinese waitress and you would have thought I gave her a fifty dollar gold piece. She ran all over the restaurant showing the other employees what she had and even went back in the kitchen to show those workers. They were impressed and I doubt they had ever seen one. I recently gave one to a panhandler. He was confused at first and thought I was trying to fool him. When he finally figured out what he had his face lit up into a big smile. Dollar coins are good for poker games.

 

[357magster]

Your post brought back some fond memories ... use to be a big deal getting one of those when I was a kid. Got to wondering about their current production status. Found this in the US Treasury web site: