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Author Topic: Are $2.00 bills worth more than their face value? Kris Brunton Expert Film Handler Posts: 108 From: Napanee, Ontario, Canada Registered: Apr 2000 posted 03-25-2003 08:32 AM                     I tend to collect money new and old from my travels. I used to live in a border town so I have a US $2 dollar bill. I have never looked into how much it would be worth but I figured the longer I keep it the better chance it would be worth something.  |  IP: Logged Bob Maar (Maar stands for Maartini) Posts: 28608 From: New York City & Newport, RI Registered: Feb 2001 posted 03-25-2003 09:52 AM                        I use two dollar bills on a regular basis. I also use the Susan B. Anthony dollars which are more like quarters, and the Sachajuawa (sp) bronze colored dollars. Most people are thrilled when they get the two dollar bill...the younger people usually call over a manager to see if it's ok to accept them.. I like the Canadian money. Can you imagine what would happen if the United States changed the color of their money? Then gave you six months to turn in all of the old money.All hell would break loose.  |  IP: Logged Barry Floyd Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1079 From: Lebanon, Tennessee, USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 03-25-2003 10:20 AM                        The U.S. 2 dollar bill is quite a novelty item, since you don't find that many in circulation on a regualr basis. Here's the exception: My wife and I went to a drive-in theatre in Florida during the week of the U.D.I.T.O.A. (United Drive-In Theatre Owners Association) conference and were given change at the concession stand with.... 2 dollar bills. The manager tells us he goes to the bank and orders as many as he can get. He said, "I was eating breakfast Saturday morning at a restuarant, and a guy at the next table is "showing off this 2 dollar bill he picked up last night at the drive-in", to which the other people at the table responded, "where is a drive-in around here?" The 2 dollar bill did two things for the manager: 1.) It made the customer who recieved it remember where he got it. 2.) everyone at that table now knows there is a drive-in theatre within driving distance from there home. When we open our theatre this summer, - rest assured there will be plenty of 2 dollar bills in the cash registers.  |  IP: Logged Paul G. Thompson The Weenie Man Posts: 4718 From: Mount Vernon WA USA Registered: Nov 2000 posted 03-25-2003 01:37 PM                     Washington State Ferries handed them out for change like there was no tomorrow.  |  IP: Logged Evans A Criswell Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1579 From: Huntsville, AL, USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 03-25-2003 03:49 PM                        Every time I go to the bank, I ask if they have any $2 bills. I got 10 today at lunch, which I plan to give as tips to waitrers/waitresses who give good service when I dine alone. I've found that if I leave tips in unusal forms when I eat out at places frequently, I the people that work there remember me and I get better service overall.  |  IP: Logged Claude S. Ayakawa Film God Posts: 2738 From: Waipahu, Hawaii, USA Registered: Aug 2002 posted 03-25-2003 04:34 PM                        Thank you very much for the input, everyone! Gee, I now have an extra $14.00 to spend. Since I also eat out alone a lot where there are a lot of good looking women, Evans idea of using the bills for tip is an excellent idea. -Claude  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 03-25-2003 06:57 PM                        Bob wrote: quote: Can you imagine what would happen if the United States changed the color of their money? It's going to happen. Not sure when, but it's in the works. (My wife's a banker, she told me about it.)  |  IP: Logged Jacob Huber Expert Film Handler Posts: 172 From: Evansville, IN, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 03-25-2003 10:57 PM                     While on the subject, and without starting a new thread, how many of you see silver certificates or notes (as opposed to reserve notes) out there? Would these be worth any more than face value?  |  IP: Logged Claude S. Ayakawa Film God Posts: 2738 From: Waipahu, Hawaii, USA Registered: Aug 2002 posted 03-26-2003 01:05 AM                        Jacob, I believe silver certificate notes are worth much more than face value because the government rounded up as much as they could and had them destroyed when they changed the paper currency to federal reserve notes. By the way, when Hawaii was still an American territory during World War II, all of the United States currency in circulation in the islands were over printed in large black letters-HAWAII on the back sides of the bills. This was done to prevent the Japanese from getting hold of all of the American currency in the islands in case of a successful invasion and occupation. If this were to happen, all over printed Hawaiian currency would immediately become worthless in the world monitary market. Today, these bill are very rare and worth a lot of money. The dollar bills are not as valuable as the higher denomination because they were more common. I used to see these bills a lot when I was a kid and wished my parents stashed as much of them away instead of spending them. -Claude  |  IP: Logged Tom Doyle Expert Film Handler Posts: 176 From: Bristol, CT, USA Registered: Nov 2002 posted 03-28-2003 12:02 PM                     If you are going to spend any $2 bills, you might be interested in this. Snopes.com is a website devoted to examining the truth about urban legends. There are plenty of articles to read, but here's a link to a page with a funny internet story about a man trying to buy food with a $2 bill: http://www.snopes.com/humor/business/tacobell.htm They can't verify if the story is for real. However, after the story they have a link to a page of e-mails sent in by readers about their own adventures in spending 'funny' money. So, good luck with those bills!  |  IP: Logged John Hawkinson Film God Posts: 2273 From: Cambridge, MA, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 04-04-2003 01:36 AM                     Just to inject some facts, I bumped into the June 2002 issue of Bank Note Reporter recently, so here are some data on the value of $2 bills. Paper money collector value is strongly dependant on condition, and generally you're quoted numbers for "Fine", "XF" (Extremely Fine), and "CU" (Crisp Uncirculated). For whatever reason, there's no Fine listed for these $2s, but I assume the older ones are worth more than their face value. For non-star notes through series 1953A (note these are all United States Notes not Federal Reserve Notes): [CODE] Series Signatures XF CU 1928 Tate-Mellon $25 $40 1928A Woods-Mellon $100 $250 1928B Woods-Mills $250 $1000 1928C Julian-Morgenthau $25 $75 1928D Julian-Morgenthau $15 $40 1928E Julian-Vinson $30 $70 1928F Julan-Snyder $18 $35 1928G Clark-Snyder $15 $25 1953 Prist-Humphrey $7 $10 1953A Priest-Anderson $5 $10 ... [/CODE] For star-notes, I won't bother to type them in, but they range from $50 (CU) for the 1953A to $15,000 for the 1928B. --jhawk  |  IP: Logged Bruce McGee Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1776 From: Asheville, NC USA... Nowhere in Particular. Registered: Aug 1999 posted 04-04-2003 03:19 AM                     I've got 5-$2 bills from 1976 gotten at the bank on the day of issue with sequential serial numbers. I never see them used as change. Maybe, one day, though.  |  IP: Logged

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