# Where does one get sheets of one dollar bills? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [December 6, 2011, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-does-one-get-sheets-of-one-dollar-bills/605315 "2011-12-06T23:18:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![guizot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guizot/32/3636_2.png) [@guizot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/guizot)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2011, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-does-one-get-sheets-of-one-dollar-bills/605315/21 "2011-12-07T06:43:41Z")
> [@VOW](#): > > $2 bills are still legal tender. You should be able to get them at any bank. I often ask for them, and usually they don’t have any more than 25 or so available. ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Panda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ee7513/32.png) [@Darth\_Panda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Panda)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2011, 8:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-does-one-get-sheets-of-one-dollar-bills/605315/22 "2011-12-07T08:16:34Z")
> [@guizot](#): > > I often ask for them, and usually they don’t have any more than 25 or so available. Go to a strip club. They have plenty. (Some, not all) ---
**Author:** ![Machine\_Elf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/82dd89/32.png) [@Machine\_Elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Machine_Elf)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2011, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-does-one-get-sheets-of-one-dollar-bills/605315/23 "2011-12-07T12:54:54Z")
> [@VOW](#): > > My husband wanted to buy a sheet of four uncut $2 bills for our granddaughter’s second birthday. > > The Treasury was sold out. > > SOLD OUT!!! > > SOMEBODY is buying the damned things! > ~VOW I received a gift of a sheet of four $1 bills (not $2 bills) maybe 20 years ago. It’s held in a nice posterboard folder that explains in detail all the features and symbols printed on the bills. Kinda cool. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2011, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-does-one-get-sheets-of-one-dollar-bills/605315/24 "2011-12-07T13:04:56Z")
> [@Darth\_Panda](#): > > Go to a strip club. They have plenty. (Some, not all) Make sure to tell people that’s why you’re at the strip club. A good laugh will brighten their day. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2011, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-does-one-get-sheets-of-one-dollar-bills/605315/25 "2011-12-07T15:36:56Z")
> [@Patty\_O\_Furniture](#): > > Just get a small stack of new $2 bills and use bookbinder’s glue to seal the top edges so it looks like a pad of paper. You can tear one off each time you need to use one. It has the same effect and doesn’t cost $3 per bill. An old family friend once did that, but he took his stacks of crisp sequential $2 bills (which he’d special-order from the local bank) to a print shop, and they gummed them for him. He always loved the look on the faces of waitresses, merchants, salespeople etc. when he’d pull out what looked like a checkbook and tear off a $2 bill or two. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2011, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-does-one-get-sheets-of-one-dollar-bills/605315/26 "2011-12-07T16:36:49Z")
I prefer to get my currency [on rolls](http://www.amazon.com/Money-Toilet-Roll-Dollar-Paper/dp/B002L6EKH0). ---
**Author:** ![VOW](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/vow/32/3043_2.png) [@VOW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VOW)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2011, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-does-one-get-sheets-of-one-dollar-bills/605315/27 "2011-12-07T16:45:37Z")
If you want an uncut sheet of twos, you’ll have to get in line to order them from bureauofengravingandprinting. If you wanna GLUE your twos in sheets, see the bank. If the bank doesn’t have enough twos on hand, order them. Won’t cost extra, since they are legal tender. You can also order Susan B’s, and the George dollar coin. Since the US Gov’t invested heavily in currency which ended up being unpopular, you’ll find a lot of it overseas. Commissaries and Exchanges on US military bases take US money, and their tills are full of twos, Susan B’s, and probably George dollar coins. ~VOW ---
**Author:** ![Lukeinva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lukeinva/32/17872_2.png) [@Lukeinva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lukeinva)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2011, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-does-one-get-sheets-of-one-dollar-bills/605315/28 "2011-12-07T17:02:10Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > They want to charge $16 for 4 $1 bills? Would it be possible to find out how many people take advantage of this incredible offer each year? It is one of the best deals going for the Treasury dept: charging more money for money that likely won’t be spent. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2011, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-does-one-get-sheets-of-one-dollar-bills/605315/29 "2011-12-07T17:54:17Z")
> [@Lukeinva](#): > > It is one of the best deals going for the Treasury dept: charging more money for money that likely won’t be spent. There’s even a word for it: [Seigniorage - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seignorage) ---
**Author:** ![Xema](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/9de053/32.png) [@Xema](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Xema)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2011, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-does-one-get-sheets-of-one-dollar-bills/605315/30 "2011-12-07T18:04:04Z")
> [@Lukeinva](#): > > It is one of the best deals going for the Treasury dept: charging more money for money that likely won’t be spent. But they are doing their best to keep sales low. I decided strips of dollar bills might make a good gift for some nieces & nephews. But when you try to place an order you get the message “For orders received on or after November 16, 2011, please allow 4 weeks for delivery.” - a clever holiday marketing scheme. I decided to try the customer service number, to see if it really is impossible to get anything in 2 weeks. If you call that number, you get a message telling you to press ‘\*’. When you do that, you are told you’ll soon receive a text message with more info. The text message says: From 25434 # Info Svc $9.99/mo Msg & data rates may apply for 20 lookups/mo. Reply HELP for help [www.numsvc.com](http://www.numsvc.com) Reply Y for info on # you R dialing Reply STOP to cancel I’m wondering if this means that unless I reply STOP I’ve signed up for a $9.99/mo service. Really fine customer service. ---
**Author:** ![Lukeinva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lukeinva/32/17872_2.png) [@Lukeinva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lukeinva)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2011, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-does-one-get-sheets-of-one-dollar-bills/605315/31 "2011-12-07T18:47:06Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > There’s even a word for it: [Seigniorage - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seignorage) The post office must know this tactic as well. Issuing so many stamps every year keeps collectors buying the new issues without ever using the stamps for postage. ---
**Author:** ![Agent\_Foxtrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc29f/32.png) [@Agent\_Foxtrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agent_Foxtrot)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2011, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-does-one-get-sheets-of-one-dollar-bills/605315/32 "2011-12-07T19:29:26Z")
> [@Patty\_O\_Furniture](#): > > Just get a small stack of new $2 bills and use bookbinder’s glue to seal the top edges so it looks like a pad of paper. You can tear one off each time you need to use one. It has the same effect and doesn’t cost $3 per bill. I seem to remember reading on these boards that Steve Jobs used to do this. He’d keep a pad of perforated $2 bills and tear them out to use as tips and such. ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2011, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-does-one-get-sheets-of-one-dollar-bills/605315/33 "2011-12-07T19:37:05Z")
> [@Agent\_Foxtrot](#): > > I seem to remember reading on these boards that Steve Jobs used to do this. He’d keep a pad of perforated $2 bills and tear them out to use as tips and such. [Pssst.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=14538243#post14538243) [sub]It was Woz[/sub]. ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2011, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-does-one-get-sheets-of-one-dollar-bills/605315/34 "2011-12-07T19:39:31Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > They want to charge $16 for 4 $1 bills? Would it be possible to find out how many people take advantage of this incredible offer each year? At the coin shop I work at? About 8-20 a year. Framed nice (you do that part yourself) they look sort of cool. ---
**Author:** ![Agent\_Foxtrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc29f/32.png) [@Agent\_Foxtrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agent_Foxtrot)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2011, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-does-one-get-sheets-of-one-dollar-bills/605315/35 "2011-12-07T19:39:57Z")
> [@friedo](#): > > [Pssst.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=14538243) > [sub]It was Woz[/sub]. D’oh. :smack: Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![TXCowboy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/76d3ee/32.png) [@TXCowboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TXCowboy)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2011, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-does-one-get-sheets-of-one-dollar-bills/605315/36 "2011-12-07T22:56:53Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > An old family friend once did that, but he took his stacks of crisp sequential $2 bills (which he’d special-order from the local bank) to a print shop, and they gummed them for him. He always loved the look on the faces of waitresses, merchants, salespeople etc. when he’d pull out what looked like a checkbook and tear off a $2 bill or two. I had an uncle that used to get $1 bills that way from the bank ( I don’t know if it was something the bank just did or if he had to get them special). One summer (1979 or 1980) I took care of his animals for 2 weeks while they were on vacation. He paid me $50.00 all in brand new, sequencial serial number one dollar bills bound in a pad. Being 16 years old, I didn’t even think of keeping them intact and saving them. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-does-one-get-sheets-of-one-dollar-bills/605315.md?page=1)