Why $2 bills aren't seen very often
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- čas přidán 8. 07. 2024
- How did the 2 dollar bill become so uncommon in our culture? What led to the bill being looked at as a novelty or collector's item? The director of The Two Dollar Bill Documentary looks at the bill's evolution, and what happened when it was re-issued for the nation's Bicentennial in 1976. It all makes perfect sense now!
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What I’d really like to see is a decently designed $1 coin that everyone can get onboard with. That way, the $2 bill would be the smallest note in circulation and would become more commonly used. At least, that’s my theory… and I’m sticking to it! 😬
I agree get them and spend them. I would rather carry five $2 bills then 10 $1 bills. I also wish more people would use half dollars. We always used them when I was a kid.
I alkways try to get them when I go to the bank. Always fun to spend when theres a younger person as a cashier...
hamOn Rye “counterfeit! Lemme get my manager!”
Not to mention 'silver dollar's 😵😱
Lorenzo Maximo what if something’s 1$?
I believe inflation ruined the usefulness of the half dollar.
Just a little weird to hear "Duke Nukem wanted to know"
Well, had to use the name on the question, ya know?
I remember $2 bills mainly as "bait" used by convenience stores, taxi drivers and pizza delivery drivers. Often used on "clip alarms,", a device that fit in the drawer where the alarm was tripped when two, two dollar bills were removed. The theory was the $2.00 bills were odd enough they would be known not to use or after a robbery police would take note.
Why doesn't the government still try to advocate the use of $2 bills?
Good question. The government actually DOES advocate people to use twos because they save money on printing if more people would use them. It's just that people don't. Good possible question for a future video though.
@@TheTwoDollarBillDocumentary Trust ME! I am doing my part in Texas, it's the banks I have accounts with, that have an issue, or can't hold them for me, or call me to tell me they have $2.00 bills available.. I'd make a special trip to purchase them, and spend the $2.00's! I might need enough $2.00 bills to get my car repaired.. Approx about $1,600.00 or so in trans-axel, and air conditioning repairs, driver side door hinge, weather strip repairs... I also might need about $5,000.00 for a new / used engine.. for my 1982 Ford Granada.. :"( I have serious needs, heck, to have a small cooler full of $2.00 bills, to pay for day to day expenses, food, bread, chips, cheese, salsa. Ritz crackers, ect... paying nothing but $2.00 bills in Texas.. :D But... I'm going on faith, and prayer to G-d / Hashem for a serious break in my financial woes, lonely single Jewish women, wanting a boytoy, lover to spoil rotten as her security guard? :)
The Two Dollar Bill Documentary yes great question, another could be why you get the looks from cashiers when trying to use them. With the dreaded marker to test counterfeiting, then they mark it again damaging more ! I think the treasury should run some commercials to promote its use and educate the younger generation.
The problem is they dont have a place for them in the registers and it makes the casheers go crazy.
These are all great comments - thanks everyone. The looks from cashiers will continue until those cashiers understand that the $2 is normal currency. If $2s start getting used more, cashiers can adjust their registers accordingly. I doubt they'll ever get rid of $1s, but they should stop making them, as there are already over 11 billion out there. let them slowly fizzle out.
I immensely enjoy your videos. Very informative and educational! Always something new to learn about the $2.00 bill. Keep up the excellent work.
Thank you! It's great to get that kind of feedback, so the comment is very much appreciated. I've got lots of great content planned, some fun and some educational. When I read comments like this, it inspires me to keep up my game! Have a great day.
Would love to see a CZcams review about the reactions of people (cashiers, bank tellers, people on the street) when negotiating a two-dollar bill. Would be interesting to see if vending machines are programmed to accept these bills.
No vending machines in Texas has $2.00 capabilities. It’s $1, $5,
Only..
We've been collecting a lot of hidden camera reactions over the last month, and it should be our next video on May 23. We have a video on our channel already about vending machines, but it's more of an explainer than actually going around testing machines. We do have a video planned where we test them in ATMs. And finally, we do have one sort-of reaction video, where we spent $2s at fast food places. It's conversational, not just reactions: czcams.com/video/WT25xaYLdoI/video.html
I usually get strange looks from the kid at fast food store and sometime the kid running to the manager to see if the 2's are ok to take. I also spend half dollars, and if I gethome the chance I refer to them as 4 bit pieces. Which sometimes gets me a chance to say something about the history of our currency.
There were $2 notes issued before those you mentioned. Issued by the Continental Congress as well as the several States and many private banks through the 1850's. As well as many unusual denominations.
@@TheTwoDollarBillDocumentary do a video on why 3 dollar bills real.
I didn't know about this story. Very informative. I'm guilty of holding these as well. Mostly because I don't use cash all that often but also because I'm worried that if I spend what I have that I won't be able to find more.
This channel (and the film it's based off of) is all about educating and entertaining about the $2 bill, so I appreciate the comment and I'm glad I could open your eyes about the $2 bill. You can always get more at the bank! In this video, we tested 10 banks to see how many we'd get. You might find it interesting: czcams.com/video/bpfBAwf2HPI/video.html Also, you may also learn a lot by watching the film, which is on Amazon: amzn.to/2gpRKum Thanks again. Hope you're a subscriber!
@@TheTwoDollarBillDocumentary Yup, I subscribed after watching another video by you recently. 😀
If you go to the ocean money comes on the beach for free.
Your channel is awesome! I have been inspired. Every other week I pick up $200 stack of $2’s in the 2013 series. I’m waiting to find some 2019 series though.
Thanks! Love to hear that - both the compliments about the channel and the fact that you spend $2 bills. I'm not sure if what they printed last November was Series 2019 or the continuation of another series, but if they are in fact 2019, I'll be eager to get my hands on some too.
@@TheTwoDollarBillDocumentary I'll let you know if I find any. My local bank only has stacks of new 2013 issue bills. DM if you can, I have some great stories to share with you that I have from the past three weeks of using $2 bills.
While I was supervising the intake area of a county jail in NJ a few years ago, there was always a disproportionate amount of 2 Dollar bills in the possession of incoming inmates that had to be logged with the rest of their money and property. I couldn't figure out why so i asked an inmate who had some who possessed a few when he was getting booked. He explained that the local adult bar "gave them out as change all the time". He further explained that the twos were then used as tips for the dancers and at the bar which effectively doubled their tips as there were more two's than one's circulating in the establishment.
By any chance, are you in Portland, Oregon? We know all about a place that does that; they're in this video clip: czcams.com/video/ICY4HV80FFY/video.html. But other strip clubs use $2s often for that very reason. Yes, strip clubs are a big part of the $2 bill story.
I was looking through my in-laws's coin collection that had been inherited after passing of an elderly relative. The collection had a lot of rare and interesting coins and some bills as well. Then I saw a stack of series-1976 $2 bills. I was like what are these doing in here? Take them to the store and spend them! They didn't listen, just put them back in the collection.
When you inherit them, you can spend them!
I got 3 crisp 1995 $2.00 Bills as change a week ago.
I have two dollar bills ranging from 1976 to 2013
They're amazing for hotel housekeeping tips.
Yes they are. But since some people don't consider them real money for some reason, they may often think you stiffed them by giving them a "souvenir" instead of usable cash. So I always leave a normal cash tip and top it off with one or two $2s.
I went to USA in July. I got 11 2 dollar bills. Some I sold to other brazilians, some I gave as gifts and i've kept two. One 2009 and one 1976. I spent one at Firehouse Subs, Mall at the Millenia, Florida.
Love those $2 bills!
Me too sir! ♥️❤️$2.00 bills!
As merchant, I TRIED giving One-Dollar coins and Two-Dollar Bills as change -- for about 2 years. But there were just too many negative reactions. It got to the point that we had to ASK customers if they would be willing to have dollar coins or two dollars bills back. More than 60 percent of people simily didn't WANT them. A big part of it was that many people felt obligated to KEEP them as collectible rather than to use them as real money for spending. So, if it was their last few dollars, they didn't want them as they needed 'Real Money' that they could spend.
It's the odd ball effect that consumes ones curiosity.i remember as a boy I received a 2$Bill as a gift,have no clue what I did with it.
No one else noticed the TV Guide with Welcome Back Kotter on the cover at the same time as welcoming back the $2 bill?
That's called a perfect prop. Did you notice the date on it too?
When I get a 2 bill I can not spend them. The artwork is just too good.
I was passing them out to show Seniors spend money in our town. 😁😁😁
Tim Holmes I think they did something similar like this with military officers giving them special bills to show the effect caused
I just ordered 100 $2 bills.
Peter Szwed I got 100 from my credit union today.
Are they worth money instead of just $2?
@@nicoleyap6070 Only the 1963 series red seal ones and older are worth more than $2. I just like to use them to keep them circulating.
@@jefferylawrence9812 I get my $2 bills at my bank. I buy at least 50 at a time. They are still legal tender so I would never pay more than face value. 2$ bills made before 1976 have a red seal, different back, and are considered collectible. It is rare to find them still in circulation. My bank usually has 2$ bills in inventory so it's just a matter of asking for them. Once, I had to order them and wait a week for them to be delivered to the bank but what I got was a stack of new sequential bills. Hope this helps.
I can remember my first $2 bill back in 76.. So cool.
Where is it today?
@@TheTwoDollarBillDocumentary I have no clue.. But I do have around 5 of them now....
I use $2 bills in my business and I spend them as well as leave them as tips at restaurants. Tips that get remembered get you remembered at restaurants which sometimes improves service.
Absolutely. What kind of business are you in that you use $2s?
Coin business.
Sometimes folks request singles but most are not unhappy with 2's and some ask for them.
There was a bar in New Orleans, this guy would come in every Saturday and first thing as he walks in I take his jacket and lock it away in my security locker to him, I go fix his drink, Cutty Sark neat.. then he would sit near me ( I was a doorman at this bar) and would talk to me while watching the girls dance.. he always tipped them with 2 dollar bills.. 5 at a time..at the end of his visit I would return his jacket and escort him out to his cab.. he always tipped me 100$.. he was a well known realtor in town but was known for being picky whom he talked to.. Nice guy was in his 50s ..never asked personal questions..people trust you more that way..lol
Cool story, thanks for sharing.
I get them from my local bank and spend them normally. Frankly, we should end the $1 bill (replace with all these coins the Mint puts out), and make more $2 bills instead.
Agreed! But Americans are too used to using $1s. They have to be conditioned to use the $2s more. So keep spending them and keep informing others about them. Send them to this channel too. :)
If we switched to a dollar coin, that people would use, it would take a very long time for dollar bills to become uncommon.
@@pedrowhack-a-mole6786 ::shrug:: I've got nothing personally against $1 bill. It's just not necessary anymore. We don't need to take them out of circulation ahead of schedule. Just stop making them, and replace old one with coins. Prior to the Information Age, a dollar bill would be lucky to last 4 years, with 18mons lifespan being common. Coins would last 30 years. However, nowadays, with most transactions being electronic, $1 bills easily make it to 4 years, and conceivably, coins could last indefinitely. It may take a decade for $1 bills to disappear, but that's OK.
How can I possibly put a one dollar coin down the stripper's g-string??
@@chrismack4320 Inflation. Use $2 bills now.
You can get pretty much any US bills in Canada at any bank.
Except for 2 dollar bills as it is next to impossible to get in person.
I love the pic on the back and Thomas Jefferson looks like Jed Clampett. Just a wonderful bill, hope they never change it.
Don't think they ever will - at least not for a long time.
I love $2 notes. I’d rather carry a $2 bill than a $1 coin any day... I hate those things! Great video, thank you!
I'll take the dollar coins off your hands
I collect both of them.
While changing a $100 dollar into ones, one popped out of a stack and it was a real surprise!
Awesome! Got a $2 and made a buck as well.
I got few in my change from a food court in an airport a few years ago. I kept one and spent the rest.
The only place they have them is where ladies dance with no cloths on and they put them in dirty places. I hope you know.
@@greenlawnfarm5827 I find they go too fast in those types of establishments.
What do you mean? You know what I said. They hide them there and they get dirty.
Forgot to mention that I don't have a full mint sheet but I have a column sheet of five stacked one above the other from the mint of $2.00's $1.00's. And $5.00's of which I intend to give each of our three children each a stack. Not sure if I will go by the order they were born or let them choose or randomly just pick. Each comes in a leather folder.
If I were a vendor, I would make damn sure to give $2 bill back because I wouldn't want to deal with the extra slot needed for them.
The first 2 dollar bill that I ever saw was at my great aunt’s condo
1963 I have
Another reason you don’t see them in circulation is that there isn’t a spot in the standard cash register for it so one I spend mine the cashier sticks them under the drawer. I have never received a $2 bill in change from a store.
There IS a spot in the register - one was designed for $2 bills. But no one uses them that way. Here's our video on the subject: czcams.com/video/f76wmDQWZKo/video.html
I keep the two dollar bills because looks good and I the bank gave me a bunch of two bills with star on it
I find this very interesting..I’m from the UK and we have something similar with £2 coins..people don’t really tend to spend them, just save them and then pay them back in at the bank where I work (where we hardly ever see $2 bills being exchanged!)
Interesting. I'll have to look that up. Don't know much about those. Thanks for the comment.
Instead of ripping the corner off… maybe…I don’t know…look at the number on the bill?
You kinda missed the point. Ever counted a stack of the same bills before? You go fast. If a different bill happened to be in there and you'd forgotten about it, you'd fly right past it. That's why even today, cashiers who get $2 bills don't know where to put them in the register. If they put them in a pile with another bill, it could get missed. Yeah you can look, but that slows you down!
I confused old people with them
@@TheTwoDollarBillDocumentary you put them in the 100$ slot on top of them to hide them
@@TheTwoDollarBillDocumentary and then the fact there isn't a space for it in their drawer. That got replaced with the dollar bill way back when
My father was a navy paymaster at Norfolk, Va. They were routinely used to pay sailors to speed up payroll. Why not eliminate the $1dollar Bill and replace it with $1 coin and use more $2 dollar bills?
It's a great idea, but the problem is that people are too used to their $1 bills and have proven time and again they are reluctant to use $1 coins or even $2 bills. It's tough. As for the Navy, we have a great story in our film about a Navy officer reunited with a $2 bill they signed - over 70 years later! It's not here on CZcams, but sounds like you would really enjoy the full film: amzn.to/2gpRKum
If cash drawers were made to include $2 (and the half-dollar) they would be used in transactions much more often.
We live in a mostly cashless society now with online transactions, credit and debit cads
My mom gave me one when I was younger and told me it was obviously rare and told me they where good luck
I love these bills!
Interesting video! However, let’s cross the fingers🤞that the cash 💵 itself doesn’t go obsolete anytime soon and let alone the $2 bills.
From what I read back in the 70's, the Treasury wanted to save money from making the highly used $1 bills. So they decided to start printing a $2 bill to replace the $1 bill and in the $1 bill's place, they would make a $1 coin, just slightly larger than a Quarter. So to avoid people from confusing the $1 coin from the Quarter, they colored it gold and put the Indian maiden, Sacajawea on it. Needless to say, that idea went over like a led balloon. Everyone hated the new coin. Vending machines couldn't take them. No one wanted to use them or the $2 bill. To this day, you have people either hording them or businesses not wanting to deal with them.
The dollar coin came in a little later than you suggested. In the 70s, the idea was that by printing more $2 bills, the government could save money, since you could get twice as much money made with half the paper. It was never intended that the $1 bill would be replaced - they just wanted to print less of them. It didn't work. Then later on they went the $1 coin route as you said, and it failed. The most one dollar coins I've ever seen in one place is in a mobile app for iPhones called The Container. You have to guess how many of something is in a container, and on one of the early levels, they filled a giant pot with dollar coins. Worth a look - it was around 2500 of them. Anyway, thanks for the comment!
@@TheTwoDollarBillDocumentary Sorry, I meant the 80's, but the reasoning was the same. The $1 bill is the most used paper and the Government wanted to save money by creating a $1 coin. From what I read, they DID want to replace the $1 bill for the dollar coin, but it was a colossal failure.
Yup. People love the $1 bill. It will be very difficult to get people to stop using it.
I used some today. You can just get them from the bank
We agree: czcams.com/video/IKj7bxstnMY/video.html
Are there plans to re-design the 2$ like the other bills 5$ and up ? , Like added security features
As of now, no. But if they did change the $2 bill, we had some fun with guessing who could replace Jefferson on it: czcams.com/video/v7CV9Zw-mYg/video.html
I was first given a bank sealed package of two dollar bill s in 1982 as a birthday gift from my grandmother. She was looking for something different she said....I have received a bank sealed package every year on my birthday now for twenty nine years. My mother took up the cause after my grandmother passed away.and has purchased a sealed pack at Wells Fargo every year up until 2020 when for the first time she was unable to get them unopened so she was forced to buy just a circulated bunch I have never found any other people with any interest in these bills until today when I happened across this thread I have always wondered if there is any value to my collection other then the face value of $200.00 a bundle?? I love to pull them out of my safe and show friends they are truly beautiful notes...
Amusing. USD $2 is a big deal in Zimbabwe. They use them so often they wear the bills out.
I've heard they're also becoming very popular in Ecuador. Wish we could get cameras to both places and do some videos there for this channel.
The government should make more 2 dollar bills and stop making pennies. Why do we need pennies?
Agreed. Now all you have to do is convince the government.
Because they are (I think) the first U.S. coin. Don't throw out history.
Maybe if the government made less 1 dollar bills, people would use more 1 dollar coins and more 2 dollar bills.
Pennies are important, so we shouldn't ditch it
You won’t be able to give someone your $.02 without them.
when i go to the bank once a week i always ask if they have any 2 dollar bills it's not to often they have any
I ask for them almost every time. Down here in Florida, they seem to be a bit more common, as evidenced by what happened in this video... czcams.com/video/bpfBAwf2HPI/video.html
As a non American it's hard to understand what's so special about them, for me it's a normal banknote.
Though the $2 dollar bill is just worth 2 dollars I think it’s a masterpiece of art work. Yea I have a couple there really cool looking
I use twos when I get them as a cashier, I give them back out as change and yeah it puts a smile on peoples face, or they think they're fake...
But I've only kept two twos, a Series 2013 for my full set of uncirculated current style currency (I believe they will change the bills in the relative near future) and a Series 1976 to complete my full set of Bicentennial coins and bills, Got the Penny, Nickel, Dime, Commemorative Quarter/Half/Dollar coins and the only bill to be stamped as a Series 1976, the $2...
The Bicentennial Coin/Bill set in my opinion is a great start for someone looking to start collecting sets, six coins, and one bill, four coins easy to get, the other two and the bill a little more scarce but still common enough...
Very cool. Thanks for the comment.
Until I was 29 I didn’t know $2 dollar bills existed. I was never taught it in school I’m 30 now
im Canadian and love the uniqueness of the bills as we had 2 dollar bills also changed to the toonies feb 19 1996 i have 2 different style of 2 dollar bills ,, my question is do you think the 2 dollar US bills will they have a greater value in 20-30 years time would like to know as i have a stack (25) of them in sequential order all uncirculated
I like 2$ bills. they are so different from all the other currency. I'am a big WWII fan and would like to ask an expert, was there any change to the 2$ bill during the war? Did it change in anyway or was it used to raise morale for the war effort? Thanks.
This is a great question. It didn't really change, but there were some interesting things that happened with it (good story down at the Mexican border). You also had the Navy paying their recruits in $2 bills. We'll consider a video on this - thank you. In the meantime, here's a really cool $2 bill from World War I: czcams.com/video/5lmdBmQXcGU/video.html
Can I get circulated (or uncirculated) $2 bills at banks or other places?
You can get them at the bank! See: czcams.com/video/IKj7bxstnMY/video.html
How often do people just throw away there two dollar bills? Is it less often than people throwing away one dollar bills or is it more common?
As a cashier, I love the $2, and gladly hand them back to customers after a different customer spends them.
Great to hear! That's what you should do. And then the people you give them to should spend them again instead of stashing them in a safe place at home
I think I have a few of them in my drawer.
I once held a 2 dolalr bill and I was very confused.
The banks should offer them to the customers and stores should educate the cashier about what money is still circulating.
Agreed. The banks should definitely give them out. Stores should too, and then if people balk, it's an opportunity to educate. Great comment and thank you.
I grew up through this period and was once in retail in the 70's and later in banking in the 80's. There was ANOTHER REASON the $2 (which I loved to see) failed in retail (and Banking). Cash registers and Teller drawers had bills slots for $1-5-10-20's and 'Large'. In retail Checks went under the tray. There was no place for the $2 to go, 5 slots is all there were.
in both retail and banking it was important to keep the denominations separate. Putting 'Large' under the tray was a recipe for loss and in addition we were trained, in both retail and esp. banking, to keep all bills aligned properly. I think this was a contributing reason the $2 failed.
The gov't should have stopped making the $1 when dollar coins came back -but that was almost as sacrosanct as the proposal to eliminate the Penny...
In this video on our channel, we show how it's up to the cashier. czcams.com/video/f76wmDQWZKo/video.html But if you were trained a certain way, then the $2 was in fact out. The register slots were a factor for sure, but it certainly could have been overcome if people just used the bill. Thanks for the comment.
I’ve been asking for $2 bills at the bank the last few weeks, but the last two times I’ve asked for them, I was told they only had ONE at the branch.
Why would a bank only have one $2 bill?! It’s a BANK!! They’re not gonna have only one $1 bill or $5 bill….
They have to order them unless people are bringing them in and depositing them. So, ask them to order some! You'll end up with pristine, uncirculated, sequential serial number bills in straps
As a retail clerk, we get several a week....if its something interesting, I will save it...
Several a week? That's not typical. What kind of store is it and in what city?
@@TheTwoDollarBillDocumentary a local convenience store in Jacksonville
@@jcsadventures8975 Hey that's great! I'll be in Jacksonville on July 2 for the Jumbo Shrimp's $2 bill night (they're a minor league baseball team). They're giving out $2 bills and I'll be there with giveaways, trivia, and I'll even be shooting video for a piece that will air on this channel. Come to the game and say hi!
@@TheTwoDollarBillDocumentary That's cool!
@@TheTwoDollarBillDocumentary i may check that out if I have the night off
I was actually arrested for using a 2 dollar bill at a gas station. The cashier said their was no such thing, I tried explaining that it does it exist and she called 911 and the cops that showed up even said there was no such thing as a 2 dollar Bill.. I was detained arrested for counterfeiting and 8 hours later released... WITH OUT MY 2 DOLLAR BILL..
Did it make the news? Any video? Any follow up?
@@TheTwoDollarBillDocumentary I personally didn't see the potential of the situation, I didn't see anyone interested as I wasn't actually looking, and since I wasn't charged I didn't care.. That was about 13 years ago, and I never wanted to handle a 2 dollar bill again. There was no follow up, and though now I wish I did, hence my interest in this video, (Which is great BTW).. I sure wish there was something reported these days..
1:22 Lord knows I already have great difficulty differentiating $10s from $20s...except when I never have...ever.
If the government is going to push the $2 bill seriously, they need to link it to the $1 coin.
Then, you dont have the headache of the extra slot in the cash register.
Why do people think 50 dollar bill is bad luck you don't see alot of them floating around either
I actually like using them. I ask for them every time I cash my check. It beats carrying around ones.
Sure does. More people should learn about this convenience. That's why we're here! Thanks for the comment.
@Two Dollar Bill Documentary
If you shipped me some bricks or suitcases full of 2$'s, I'll spend them like 1's, 5's, 10's and $20's! I've pestered my banks when I can for $2.00 but hoarders are snatching them!!! Ugh!! In Central Texas Waco, Stephenville and Brownwood areas I beg for 2$'s but they are gone!! 😓🤑😪😪😥😢💔
Can't your banks order some? I don't have a suitcase full of twos, and by the time you paid for me to ship what I'd have, you'd be at a bit of a loss!
@@TheTwoDollarBillDocumentary Oh the tellers 'say' they will order some, and I'm back to work for 4 nights of 12-16 hour shift due to mandatory overtime.. 1st Convenience Bank out of Killeen, TX has branches in my area, yet many don't actually order some for me, but mostly military so it's a serious hit or miss.. by the way If G-d / Hashem forgave me, of my sins, and destroyed this financial curse on my life, to have a 7 to 12 figure income of millions in my accounts, to be respected by the banks I deal with, it wouldn't be an issue. I work for the prison, and take home only after 15 years of service $3,500 a month, and about $2,500 take home, and take out mortgage costs, I have $1,800 to spend on bills.. Compared to Military Soldiers, and Federal Government employees that get way more respect than a low paid prison guard.. Banks in Central Texas just either ignore me, or just blow me off.... So, I travel up to 400 miles in other towns to find banks I don't have accounts with if they sell what they got.. Yet... I ask you to please pray for me to find a higher paying more suitable security job, with better benefits, pay scale, I can qualify for, to help pump the $2.00 bills into main stream circulation.. Heck, I just stopped at Starbucks in Stephenville, paid my coffee with a $2.00 bill and a $1.00 and put another $2.00 bill in the tip jar.. But... my FWD transaxel transmission shut down on my 1990 Buick LeSabre, and broke down, in front of a guy's house to beg for a jump start, I limped home... So.... I asked the 1st Convenience Bank in Stephenville for $2.00 bills and they had none... Good thing, I am lonely, single, and no love life.. lol no wife and no kids... Struggling... like everyone else. :'( Thank you for responding... Yet... It would be sweet, if I had a job paying me $6,500 a month, spending nothing but $2.00 bills, like a stable job with retirement, till I turned 70... I'm 46... 6 feet.. single. Travel to towns in Texas, spending $2.00 bills on gas, food, motel stay, auto repairs, having so many $2.00 bills to get my trans-axel FWD repaired-replaced... Day to day stuff, reload my Debit Cards with $2.00 bills, shopping at Wal-Mart, and H.E.B. spending NOTHING but $2.00.. heheh perhaps some wealthy Jewish sugar mama, that wants a boyfriend to spoil, gives my pay allowance in nothing buy $2.00 bills... Seeing the reaction on people's faces, as I use nothing BUT $2.00 bills.. :D A good reliable car... restoring my 1982 Ford Granada with a used engine, or new old style engine, transmission, rack-n-pinion, front brake overhauled repairs being paid but nothing but $2.00 bills... (I'm VERY DEAD Serious about spending $2.00 bills and circulating them into cash registers ALL OVER Texas... (ASSUMING THEY ARE NOT, the Red Seal $2.00 bills) :) I'm keeping those! lol But that's OK.. I'd like to work for a bank that pays more than a prison guard for a long term job..(Till 2035) TDCJ is Ranked #47 in base pay, high stress, high turnover, and mandatory overtime..
If I could.. I’d pay the tow truck and a transmission shop $1,500 bill in $2.00 bills! I just ask G-d for a blessing of millions of dollars in $2.00 bills! ♥️♥️♥️♥️😎👍🕍
I have a 1976 .. what should I look for on this bill .I just wondering if is any value .
1976 bills aren't worth more than $2. The only way a $2 bill has more value is if it is a "star note" or has a unique serial number. Details in this video: czcams.com/video/YrjYDq85s2k/video.html
@@TheTwoDollarBillDocumentary thank you for the information.
With the modern use of an ATM debit card, a financial transaction is paid in full on the spot and deducted electronically from your bank account. Carrying cash is almost obsolete anymore making the $2 bill even more scare in society. I think I've only been given a $2 bill as change maybe twice in 40 years. You just never see them around even when they made more of them just last year.
But you (and others) can change that by getting them at the bank, spending them, and then telling people who look at them funny that they are "normal" currency and that they too should use them. You haven't seen many in 40 years because people do the exact opposite: they come across one and stash it away forever.
Back in the 1970s the bank cashed my dads pay check in all $2 bills. He worked for the railroad and it was probably a couple hundred dollars. He crashed his new car on the way home because a simi had broken down earlier that day and spilled deisel fuel on the road. He refused to take $2 bills from then on. He said they were bad luck. Now I know other people thought they were cursed also. Haha.
A majority of the population believe them to be good luck, but there are those who find them to be the opposite. Here are the origins of some of the bad luck ideas: czcams.com/video/lUXhwYvvXK8/video.html
Why is it that some teachers do not know about $2 bills? One teacher called the police on a child. He was paying for his lunch with a $2 Bill. she thought it was counterfeit money the child was passing.
That was actually a lunch lady, not a teacher. But it is true that a lot of people still don't know that $2 bills are legal currency, still being printed, including teachers.
@@TheTwoDollarBillDocumentary thank you for letting me know it was a lunch room lady. However, she must of gone to higher up to call the police. Someone should of stopped her.
I collect $2 bills and I educate my grand children about their currancy.
Love your sight. Again thanks for letting me know.
I loved the $2 bills. Wish the treasury would issue them again.
What do you mean you wish the treasury still issued them? They are still being made! More were printed last October. And here's why: czcams.com/video/_Bzg9pNVePk/video.html
Duke Nukem uh I want to spend $2,000 or more in nothing but $2.00 to get my transmission fixed! In red, blue and gold seal $2.00’s My dream bank pays me all kinds of twos in special wallets that I pay bills with and my dream Jewish sugar mama leaves thick envelopes stuffed with tens of thousands of $2.00 bills as Secret Service Agents confirm to every doubtful person to accept them or get audited!!!
Hell I went to the bank about 3 weeks ago and they had like 120 in one drawer
I go to the bank all the time and exchange $100 in $2 dollar bill notes all the time. And always spend em when I go to the grocery stores, gas stations. I love people’s reaction. People have developed a myth that they are rare and are worth a lot of money. It’s the opposite. They are not rare at all and ain’t worth more than $2 face value..
Great stuff. That's the point of the channel! - to make people aware of the $2 bill. And I love the same reactions. Thanks for sharing.
Strip clubs n horse tracks. The heart of America
Here's the strip club part of the equation: czcams.com/video/ICY4HV80FFY/video.html
I like them because not a lot of people want them.
Edit: I also got one in change at a dollar general and I saw one in the register at a gas station so they are being used
They are getting used, just not as much as they should for a piece of currency that isn't rare at all. People have to learn that they are "normal" and start treating them that way.
@@TheTwoDollarBillDocumentary next time a cash my checks I will try and get some
When was the last print of the bill?
Dylan Veekmans 2013 I believe
They actually printed more in October of 2018, but those could still be the 2013 series.
The Two Dollar Bill Documentary They are, I checked production reports.
Picked up 25 of them from the bank on friday. : )
Awesome! On your own, or were you prompted to do so by watching one of our videos?
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On my own.
When ever i cash a check i ask the teller if they have any strange money. Like.... Fifty cent pieces, dollar coins.
I have been a collector of any bicentennial money since i was a kid and could afford it. At one time i thought the 2 dollar bill was first issued in 1976. : )
Glad we could educate you some. You can learn more about the red seal bills that preceded the green ones in this video: czcams.com/video/pqwxn-6HTuk/video.html
They are bring them to Ecuador I can't wait it was all over the news here in Quito Ecuador. Saving mine too lol
Lmao i was just searching up curse dollor bill cause i was cirous if there was a curse dollor but than found this video hahhahaah
If they phased out the 1 dollar note and made it into a coin only the two might become very common
There are so many $1 notes out there, it would take a long time for them to be phased out. But it's a good idea.
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i had a idea on two dollars many countries now use two dollar coins euro/Canada for some close to the usa how do you think such a idea would fair in the US vs the currant note and how is pocket change relevant in today's market esp the small value ones cent cent cent i find it interesting to see how the less common money may be used
I really liked them
We as professional waiters get these bills more and more as time progresses..
They're great for tips. And I hope you actually spend them and don't keep them as a collectible. Good to know people are using them. Thanks for the comment.
If I end up taking this trip to the USA that I am thinking of taking, I will try and get hold of a $2 bill as a souvenir somehow (exactly how I dont know)
Go into a bank in the city you're visiting and see if they have any. If you want to pay a little more for one, you can always try eBay (or Amazon)
I live in a small town, and of the town's three banks and my credit union, it was only the credit union that did not have any $2 bills; the banks each had several.
You can get them at bars where ladies dance with no cloths.
I didn't understand why they thought they were bad luck why did they start making them in 1976
I have 2 $2 bills. I just kept them because I hardly see them. I thought they were neat to have.
Every time I go to the bank I ask if they have any $2 bills. About half the time they do, and the other half they don’t. Even when they do, it’s only about $10-$20 worth. My question is, do banks still order $2 bills?
You'd probably love this video then: czcams.com/video/bpfBAwf2HPI/video.html Banks order $2s when they need or want them. Usually it's just based on need, because a customer has requested them. They don't order them just because they want them in their cash drawers.
What are 2 dollar US Notes vs Federal Reserve notes
This video - one of the first on our channel - covers that: czcams.com/video/5AdKp5SPHKM/video.html
I rode a motorcycle in the '70s and it would take about 2$.50 to fill the tank with gas. I always kept 2s in my wallet for that purpose. I still have 2 bills from then now in 2019 as momentos I could actually use. I'm also thinking of getting some from the bank to keep with them.
I have one
People keep giving me two dollar bills because they think I collect them. I don't, well, I didn't. I guess I have a collection now because anywhere I'd try to spend them would probably think I'm insane trying to pass along "fake" money.
Keep trying. There are plenty of smart cashiers out there.
can you buy them in sheets still?
Yes, those and other denominations as well. catalog.usmint.gov/currency/uncut-currency/
Why does America have such low denomination notes/bills? In many European countries the lowest is £5/€5/5
I always try to get them when I go to the bank. Its fun to use them and half dollars when younger people are running the cash register. Some reactions are funny, including a time when a girl used a money marker to see if it was real... Good times
Great stuff. We are doing more hidden camera videos and getting those same reactions, which we'll share in future videos. Hope you're a subscriber!
Lmao poor Jefferson
Real easy to get,if you go to right place
Yes - the bank!