Featured Three Cent Nickel......

Hi,
Here is a shot of the only 2 dollar bills I ever purchased on ebay. They were a set of 10 bills 1770 to 1780 that were mailed from the town were I used to live. They were stamped Apr 13 1976. The bills were series 1976. I do not know if they are worth anything but it struck me funny bone. It is scanned that is why it looks weird.
greg

 

A few years ago We were coming back from a road trip and stopped at a rest area. We didn't have any change but the vending machines took paper money. We put in a bill and in change out came 4 One dollar coins the likes of which we had never seen. They weren't SBA dollars or any others we had seen. We ended up with 8 of them and thought they must only be good at rest area vending machines.
One day I showed them to my bank teller and she said they were legit, but didn't see them often. We got rid of them, but now I wish we had kept them.

 

My grandfather always thought $2 bills were good luck and so he collected them. He also loved wheat pennies.
I don't know what happened to his stash.
But when I bought a vintage bank recently at an estate sale, inside was a $2 bill waiting for me.

 

I have this incredibly rare quarter. Never seen another like it. It's made of plastic!



(Secretly, I suspect it may be fake.)

 

Which toy cash register did you knock over to get that?

 

The reason the kids never see the two dollar bills or dollar coins is cash registers in stores don't have slots for them. They don't get them in change and never see them otherwise. Even the banks don't want to mess with them; they have slots for the dollar coins, but not the two dollar bills.

 

“The reason they’re perceived as rare is because everyone puts them in the drawer and doesn’t use them,” Bennardo says. “That feeds the perception of rarity. They’re rare, you put them in your drawer, the cycle repeats.”

This sort of defeats the purpose for their existence. The whole point of monetary systems is to allow for the exchange of goods and services to be easily accomplished. Rather than lugging around sacks of gold coinage like Scrooge McDuck or, more likely, spending hours trying to determine just how many (x) your skills are worth, the economy can chug along at a reasonable pace when everyone gets on the paper money system. If money is to have value, it must circulate.

But: “There is not much demand for this bill in circulation,” says Lydia Washington, the public affairs specialist for the U.S. Treasury’s Bureau of Engraving and Printing. “The key for the successful circulation of the $2 note is for retailers to use them just like any other denomination in their daily operations.”

However, they don’t. If someone gets their hands on a $2 note and spends it at the bar, the bartender will often “buy” it off the bar with two $1s of their own, take it home, stick it in the bottom of a drawer or back of a wallet, and just let it rot. It’s taken out of circulation by individual users due to the perception that it’s more valuable — or, will be more valuable — than the $2 listed on the bill. And yet, clearly, this isn’t the reality. Take a $2 bill to a collector and see how much they offer in return.

The bill does continue to have a weird, vibrant life in certain subcultures: Strip clubs often make change with $2 bills in order to allow their dancers to receive better tips. Many horse-racing tracks have a minimum bet of $2, so the bills come in handy there. In Michigan, supporters of marijuana legislation have used $2 bills as a silent way to express how much “green” the green weed will boost the economy. The bills are also used as a calling card of sorts for gun owners. “[They] use them as a symbol of the Second Amendment,” Bennardo says. “To start a conversation about their right to open carry.”

Despite the fact that the actual value of the $2 bill is exactly two dollars and zero cents as far as the U.S. Treasury is concerned, it is worth more. It’s good luck, a collectible, a novelty. It’s bad luck, useless, an obvious forgery. It’s something different to everyone, but it’s something more valuable than two $1 bills.

“It’s the only U.S. bill in circulation that, to me, seems worth more than its face value,” McCabe says. “It’s so weird, so funny, why this one bill … I don’t have an answer. Everyone has a different anecdote. It’s all emotion-based.”

 

I'm a younger person and I
definitely know what two dollar bills are.

 

Were you paid in *** to research the strip club use of them?

 

No...by that time i was researching...for free !

 

Just received the following e-mail and thought of this thread. This is just a copy of the e-mail, not live links........

 

That's got to be a joke. Right?

 

I'm not so sure.............it is an actual link, but of course I did not open it.

the sending address is

Limited Trump $2 Bill contact at automatedpiece dot com

(automatedpiece.com..hee hee...............)

and the OptOut address is
Donaldcoins.com
618 e South St
#500
Orlando, FL 32801

other than that I can't say....................

 

I would edit out that email addy if I were you.

 

thanks ! I didn't realize that it would post as a link. That cot com is a valid address for an OS server test. It does nothing but confirm that you have successfully connected to the site and that your OS is installed and operating correctly.

Its the Donaldcoin part that frightens me...............

 

Oh geez. I just "got it."

 

In that photo, doesn't he look very Jimmy Carter-ish?

 

Jimmy's eyes aren't in a permanent "squint."

 

Somewhere I have a U.S. dollar with Jimi Hendrix's face on it, a novelty I picked up in Niagara Falls.