I just got a two dollar bill.

[GingerOfTheNorth]

*Originally posted by wishbone *
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*Originally posted by Schadenfreude *
**Steve Wozniak (co-founder of Apple Computer) is the ultimate $2 bill wacko. When he found that he could buy uncut sheets of the bills, he got a bunch, and would cut them off, in front of the cashier, as needed.
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They sell them at the mint in D.C. Funny thing is that it costs $7 for a sheet of four uncut bills. Shouldn’t they cost less? **

Uh… 4 x $2.00 = $8, right? By that token, they are less.

[Tedster]

(did my first post disappear??)

All $2 interested parties, this should be required reading…

http://www.milk.com/wall-o-shame/two_dollars.html

I think the ‘original’ two dollar bill was finished by 1963; they were re-issued in 1976 for the Bicentennial with the redesigned back showing the signing of the DOI; it’s actually extraordinary on a crisp bill to look at.
The older bills had Monticello on the back, iirc.

I’m not sure if there are new issues than 76…?

[Bill_H]

You can get 'em here: http://www.bep.treas.gov/store/section.cfm/69

Prices for $2 bills:
32 Notes Per Sheet (in Tube) $85.00
16 Notes Per Sheet (in Tube) $48.00
8 Notes Per Sheet (in Tube) $28.00
4 Notes Per Sheet (in Folder) $19.00

I named my son after Thomas Jefferson, and am quite fond of the $2 bill well.

[WolfpackJeep]

My dad receives a $2 bill at each annual stockholder’s meeting at his company. They’re given out as a sort of “payment” for attending the meeting, I think. I have six of them.

[Fern_Forest]

If I recall correctly we have “quarters” because England didn’t allow exporting of their coinage so the colonies used the most readily advailable coins which were Spanish dollars. Also why we have dollars and not pounds. Anyhoo the Spanish dollar could be broken into 8 pieces, hence pieces of 8. And when you had 2 of them, making a quarter of a dollar you had 2 bits.

And here’s a wierd dollar that would be fun to see. The Pi dollar, worth exactly $3.14 dollars. That would be a blast to bust out.

[matt_mcl]

I got the Canadian equivalent the other day. When our bi-metallic “twonie” $2 coins were released in 1996, the Royal Canadian Mint hadn’t perfected the locking mechanism that holds the inner gold disc into the outer silver ring. A fair number of coins were released that broke apart readily. Of course, now the locking mechanism has been perfected and the coins don’t break apart anymore, but last week while I was working the cash I saw a broken twonie in the register, held together with scotch tape. Of course I had to have it, and asked for it specifically on change when I went on my break.

So now I have a broken twonie. I heard a rumour that they could be traded in for big bucks from the Mint, which I will investigate; if not, I’ll make the gold disc into an earring.

[Nefarious_Chipmunk]

I work at a California State park, and we sell the annual passes for 35.00 and this guy came in the other day and payed for it with 17 2$ bills and a golden dollar. My boss bought them all off of me, which was just as well since I don’t have any slot on the accounting form for 2$ bills :rolleyes:

[TheLoadedDog]

*Originally posted by Jinxie *
**If I recall correctly we have “quarters” because England didn’t allow exporting of their coinage so the colonies used the most readily advailable coins which were Spanish dollars. Also why we have dollars and not pounds. Anyhoo the Spanish dollar could be broken into 8 pieces, hence pieces of 8. And when you had 2 of them, making a quarter of a dollar you had 2 bits.
**

Thanks Jinxie. It makes sense to me now. It was a similar case here in Australia:
[sub]from The pocketbook guide to Australian coins and banknotes by Greg McDonald[/sub]

“1813 COLONIAL HOLEY DOLLAR AND DUMP OF AUSTRALIA”
When Governor Lachlan Macquarie arrived in Sydney, a lack of coinage saw the infant colony basically a bartering community using rum as its main unit of currency. Macquerie went a long way to solving the problem of what coinage there was being taken by trading ships when he took possession of 40.000 Spanish Dollars which arrived in Port Jackson in 1812. The Spanish Dollar was an International currency with a value of between Four Shillings and Nine Pence and Five Shillings. He made the coins very unattractive to foreign traders by punching the centre out of the coin and giving both parts inflated values over and above the intrinsic value of the silver. The Holey Dollar, or outer ring, was valued at Five Shillings while the inner plug, known as the Dump was valued at Fifteen Pence.
They were demonetised in 1829, recalled and melted down. Less than 300 Holey Dollars are known to exist and about 1000 Dumps survive."

[Enderw24]

I have about five in my wallet right now. One of them I don’t spend because my grandfather gave it to me. The rest I spend as needed and restock every time I go to the bank.

I’m waiting for the time when some cashier refuses to take it because he or she thinks it’s counterfeit. Oh I live for that day. No luck so far.

[Baker]

A local theater gives out 50 cent pieces when you hand them five dollars for a $4.50 show. I don’t like the half dollars, so I saved up several Susan B. Anthony dollars once and paid with those at the next show. The(very young)man who was taking ticket money looked at them, turned them over in his hand a few times and asked plaintively “Is this American money?”

[flodnak]

*Originally posted by TheLoadedDog *
[Slight Hijack -sorry]
What’s the deal with the US “quarter”? Do any other countries have a 25c denomination?

The Scandinavian countries all had a 0.25 krone/krona coin at one time, though Norway and Sweden got rid of theirs years ago. Denmark still had them last I was there, but that was a few years ago so they might have dropped it.

[Geek_Mecha]

My ex had a couple, and traded with me some nice, crisp ones for one of them. I keep it in my planner.

[The_Great_Gazoo]

Two words: horse racing

$2 bet is the standard, so $2 bills - don’t see them that often, but still occasionally get one.

[kniz]

*Originally posted by TheLoadedDog *
**[Slight Hijack -sorry]
What’s the deal with the US “quarter”? Do any other countries have a 25c denomination? 20 cents (or Baht or whatever) seems to be the norm. I’m not American, so I find this rather quaint -but strangely cool. It seems a little out of place in a decimal system. I’m curious as to its origins. **

There’s an old jiggle that goes "a shave and a haircut: two bits and an expression "let me get my two bits in this (conversation) Perhaps the most known expression is used by American cheerleaders, it is “two bits, four bits, six bits a dollar.” Why do I mention two bits? Because that is a quarter. Originally a bit was 1/8 or 12-1/2 cents of a Spanish peso/Spanish dollar. The bit was a coin itself but the peso could be cut into halves, quarters or bits. In 1792 the term “two bits” began being applied to the American quarter. http://www.shu.ac.uk/web-admin/phrases/bulletin_board/3/messages/87.html

[rjung]

Oddly enough, I cleaned out my desk last week and flushed out several $2 bills and a half-dozen silver dollars.

[DoZ]

You can get all the fun money you want at most any bank.
Two dollar bills, Suzie-Q dollars, Papoose dollars, Kennedy and Eisenhower coins. But most people will pay triple or more for the same coins at a shop.

[Evnglion]

I have about a million liberty-bell coins in a crown royal sack. They come in handy when you wanna piss someone off with unrecognizable currency.

[bouv]

I remember a few years ago I went on a trip to Boston, and had to travel through New Hampshire to get there. Anyways, I stopped at a rest stop to use the facilities and get a soda. I went up to the soda machine with a crisp $1.00 bill, hmm…no bill slot, ah! Change machine right there. Put in the dollar, out came one coin. I was thinking,
“great, it runs out of quarters when I use it”
Well, it was out of quarters, but it was designed that way. It gave out Susan B’s. I must have put in $20.00 into that thing just to get all the Susan B’s I could.

…I wonder if it’s still there, full of Susan B’s…

[Sunspace]

For real fun, try to get a roll of Canadian fifty-cent coins. These things are so rarely used that they don’t even have a short ‘slang’ name, like ‘quarter’ for ‘twenty-five-cent coin’.

A coin shop will sell an individual fifty-cent coin to you as a collectible, or as part of a set, but the last time I went to a bank and asked for some, the teller said, ‘Fifty-cent coin? What’s that?’!

[Dijon_Warlock]

*Originally posted by bouv *
**I remember a few years ago I went on a trip to Boston, and had to travel through New Hampshire to get there. Anyways, I stopped at a rest stop to use the facilities and get a soda. I went up to the soda machine with a crisp $1.00 bill, hmm…no bill slot, ah! Change machine right there. Put in the dollar, out came one coin. I was thinking,
“great, it runs out of quarters when I use it”
Well, it was out of quarters, but it was designed that way. It gave out Susan B’s. I must have put in $20.00 into that thing just to get all the Susan B’s I could.

…I wonder if it’s still there, full of Susan B’s… **

Our change machines give out a random mix of Susan B’s and Sackies, and they will change anything up to a $20 bill. All the vending machines are configured to take them.