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It isn't worth much but it is a near mint condition likely uncirculated $2 bill from 1963
Two dollar bills rock. I've worked two jobs in which I was the only one working the register who knew that $2 bills are a real thing, ha!
you can buy perforated sheets of new ones at moneyfactorystore.gov, like Steve Wozniak does
No they are actually much much different. This is one from 2003
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They changed the design in 1976 for the bicentennial to have the painting of the signing of the declaration of independence on the back and a new front as well.
It isn't worth much ($10 at most) but it's a neat little historical artifact I thought yall might find interesting. Mainly due to its remarkably well preserved condition, it feels just as crisp as brand new bank notes I get at work in my till sometimes.
Must be a lot of them then. The $2 bills were stockpiled as cash for wages after a possible nuclear war. Americans rejected them so they government supposed they would be less Choosey after an attack. So there must be an abnormal amount that are from the 20th century that are in new condition.
$2 notes date back to the earliest years of modern US currency in the 1860s. I've heard the $2 note grew unpopular in more recent times due to its association with gambling. Horse and dog track bets tend to be based on $2 stakes, so a stack of $2s had a noxious connotation, like if someone busts out a huge stack of singles and you crack a joke that they must be a stripper.
Many countries get by fine with currency units worth ~$1 and $5 and nothing in between (i.e. Japan ¥100/500 coins, Korea 1000/5000 won notes)
Yeah that would make sense, I had no idea about the stockpile thing, got any sources I could read up on that. In fact that could be its own interesting post lol.
It's mentioned on this show. Not sure about the video: https://youtu.be/89rytWMKsf0
