The backs of old $2 bills are treasury masterpieces of art
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- Sure, the back of the current 2 dollar bill looks gorgeous with the Declaration of Independence, but some of the older $2 bills actually beat it. In this clip from the maker of The Two Dollar Bill Documentary, see all the old twos and learn some numismatics history as well. See Silver Certificates, us treasury notes, coin notes and any bill released into the economy. All the bills leading up to today's federal reserve note.
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Another great video John, thanks! The 1976 is still my favorite but I remember seeing the 1896 silver certificate on "Pawn Stars" and thinking how amazing the art on our currency has been over the years.
True. Most currency have beautiful backs, but obviously I'm biased toward the two and wanted to show them off. :)
Good video
older money in general has way more character than the current ones.
Hello The Two Dollar Bill Documentary - Great Channel! --> I just subscribed --> Looking forward to watching your next video
Thank you! Plenty of old ones to watch... new ones begin in 2020!
@@TheTwoDollarBillDocumentary I subscribed and turned on notifications
My favorite note.I want them all.
Of all the two dollar bills ever made how many were there
There are 1.3 billion of the current green seal bills. Counts on other denominations - especially the older ones - are tough because many might not be around anymore.
Excellent content and theme , thank you for sharing a great piece of U.S. currency history.
Thanks for watching!
Whoa, who'd have thunk? Cool Beans!
thanks for all the info John,
You bet!
Do you have anything on $5 silver certificates and what is the image on the back of that $5 bill
John! The Two Dollar Bill is my favorite currency as well! Thank You!! :) I get various $2.00 notes from A to L.. How many letters of each bank are printed on the $2.00 bill?
Same as all other currency... 12. A through L. Although, so few $2s are made with each run, it's usually just one or two letters that get put into play.
OMG. I got my question made into a video! 😁
Yes you did! Please go to my channel page, "About", find my contact info and send me your address. You can also find it from the film's webpage: 2dollarbillmovie.com. When you get me your address, I'll send you your $2!
@@TheTwoDollarBillDocumentary Cool. I think I did it. I'm going to find a frame and mount it with the back side forward. :-) Thank you.
How much does a yellow stamp go for? It is also a star note(series 1953) can't find a similar one to mine anywhere
How those are really cool
They sure are
What do you think will be on the 2’s in the futrue
Were there any star notes? Or error notes?
They are very hot bills
You mean hot like cool? Yeah, they're both.
@@TheTwoDollarBillDocumentary yes
I looooove twos I order two hind buck at the whenever I get paid
Very nice pictures of the various $2 backs throughout our history, but the face of the 1896 Educational series is NOT a school teacher. The official title is "Science presenting Steam and Electricity to Industry and Commerce". This is actually printed in very small print at bottom of the vignette. So the "school teacher" is actually a goddess representing "Science" and she is presenting the two new children "Steam" and "Electricity" to two other goddesses representing "Industry" and "Commerce". Rest of the information was correct. For a bit of information the battleship on the $2 Federal Reserve Banknote is generally considered to be the Battleship USS New York.
If that's so, the currency dealer who showed it to me is wrong. But perhaps he confused it with a teacher because she is "teaching" them something to some degree (it's a stretch, I know). But thanks for the clarification.
My source is Friedberg and Bowers. By the way the $5 in the series was the one that got a bit of controversy since it showed a very scantily clad female allegory.
This is fascinating. All those different notes and some may have been private issue.
The engravers were master artisans in their own right.
Funny story how I got a red seal 2 dollar note. I used to deliver pizza and the customer could not pay the full amount. A call to my manager and they got the wings only. They paid in cash and in that wad was the 2 dollar bill.
I decided that there was no way in hell they would get it. I swapped it for 2 dollars from my wallet.
Most people would have done the exact same thing... many do, even with a regular green seal $2 bill. Thanks for sharing!
Can you talk more history on the Bills with Hawaii on them ?? Please, Thank you
Which bills have Hawaii on them? I'll do a video on it if you can point me in the right direction. I'm not familiar with any bill that anything Hawaiian related on it.
@@TheTwoDollarBillDocumentary It's I bill the state's made for Hawaii when they attack Pearl harbor. I'm not that knowledgeable about it that's why I wanted to know more about it. Thank you
is there a name for the design style of us money? not engraving, but like that very specific style art wise with all the elaborate things
It's called intaglio printing - which is the method of pritning and not related to the actual design. But you can hear more about it in this video: czcams.com/video/CewaT5TuYE0/video.html
Have a newer 2 hour note with a error on the back the plate note is sitting on top of the number 2 in the bottom right corner
That would be worth some money. Misprints rarely go into circulation.
Hi John;
here is aquestion for you? I own a 1/2 sheet of uncut $2.00 bills from the Fed I believe, at least the paper and printing is exactly like the $2.00 bills i already own, but all the serial numbers are the same. Do you know why they printed a sheet with all the same numbers?
They should not be the same. That's very odd, and I've never heard of it. It could be a sheet printed strictly as a novelty or sale item instead of one pulled from an actual printing. In that case, I can see why they'd have the same (bogus and unused) serial number. You could also have bought that from someone other than the Fed, and they made it to look like the real bills but it really isn't. I'd need more info to give you a better answer!
You made me go look closer to my sheet. The serial numbers are different, the last three digits are all the same but all the preceeding numbers are different. It is a real sheet of $2.00 bills. I guess in the three years of owning the sheet I never looked that close to the serial numbers. Someone turned this sheet into the bank teller and she held it for me knowing I was a coin guy and might be interested in owning it. She got a thank you gift!
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Mr I have a question can u buy a 2 dollar bill in a corner store
They don't "sell" $2 bills in stores - they are actual money. Try a bank!
If I if I haven't already seen it can you make a red s and red are 1935 a video and the serial numbers that are important is that year
Red s and red r 1935a
Here's our video on red seal $2 bills. There is not $2 red seal from 1935. czcams.com/video/pqwxn-6HTuk/video.html
Even though we had the $1 dollar bill. What was the purpose or thinking behind the making of the $2 dollar bill?
We had all kinds of odd denominations. Like half penny,2c,3c,and bills like $500.
2$ Bill's cost less over time printing you save astronomical moneys. Buuuut we dont spend them as often so we think they rare.
Why did Canada stop making their $2 bill? Why didn’t they follow the U.S’s footsteps on re-releasing the $2 bill?
How and why are the people displayed on any dollar bill including the 2 dollar bill chosen and what makes them important?
Could we move over to the $2 coin like Canada?
You'll have to ask the Treasury Department.
Answer. No. The dollar coin did not prove popular,so a 2 dollar coin would be out.
@@jetstream6389 But it would be of very limited use. Christ,the dollar coin was a bit of a fail.
@@jetstream6389 That would take a huge effort on all parties. From stores having to reconfigure for dollar coin spots in registers. Manufacturers needing to add dollar coin acceptance. The gov't to spend more money striking coins. The simple fact that coins in large quantities are bulky and heavy.
@@jetstream6389 Here is one you might not know. Strippers. If you put a coin in a strippers garter or such,she could lose it,get it stuck somewhere or she would think you were a cheap bastard.
The reason we keep pennies is for Lincoln. And tips are usually in $1s and 5s. That would be heavy at the end of a day.
How many different counterfeiting securities did the Two-Dollar Bill have?
Zero. The design itself was an anti-counterfeiting measure back then. Nowadays, the $2 and the $1 are the only denominations that haven't been redesigned to include security features, mostly because no one is wasting their time to fake such a small bill.
@@TheTwoDollarBillDocumentary A few years ago I received a fake $5 bill. Lol.. I could believe it
What is more rare in the 2 dollar bill history
Last edition, who is the man in the hat and why is he the only man in the hat?
Why are twos so uncommonly circulated
They are """""rare""""". Same goes for halves.
They are not """"rare""""", Yolo. They are just perceived to be so. There are plenty of each to go around.
@@TheTwoDollarBillDocumentary Sorry, satire is hard to convey over text. I generally try to spend as many halves and $2's as possible.
What are the differences between a Canadian $2 bill and the U.S’s $2 bill?
That's a good question and one I will consider using. I just don't know a lot of the Canadian $2 bill. I will research it, and if it seems like it would make a popular video, I'll do it. Stay tuned.
But why to draw a bills are very rare and and why you cannot find them in the bank sometimes
They are rare and not found in banks due to their value
Why are two dollar bills no longer used ?
They ARE used. Who said they weren't? I use them all the time. Here are more people that do: czcams.com/video/R7YC6qLuJF4/video.html
Why is there not many two dollar bills in the world?
There are actually over 1.4 billion twos in circulation. So your question really isn't accurate.
What happens when 2 dollar bills are missprinted
Good question! We've put some error notes in other videos on this channel. Maybe we'll do one where we focus only on that.
Is there anything special about the 1976 $2 bill 🤔?
Not really, except that it was the first year of the new redesign. People think it's special because it's a bicentennial, but it's less rare than all the other years of green seal bills - they made 400 million of them and haven't made that many in a printing since.
Why $5,000 and 1,000,00 bill not Here
Why didn't they make $3 bills? They had a $3 Gold Coin and many of the private banks before the Civil War issued $3 bills.
are to 2 dollar bills rare?
No, they are not. The ones featured in this video are very hard to find, but regular $2 bills with the Declaration of Independence on the bank can be picked up at almost any bank.
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Why did they put Thomas Jefferson on a $2 bill
Made that video last year: czcams.com/video/w4XQTMToMKc/video.html
Why did the US government decide to create a $2 bill? Why not a $3 bill or a $6 bill?
Mostly, because 2 comes after 1. It made sense, when things didn't cost very much, to go up by one increment.
Whats sooooo valuable about the 2 dollar?
Nothing is valuable about the regular $2 bills, issued from 1976-present. But the ones made before that have additional value.
Our money at one time was beautiful. Works of art by themselves, worthy of being framed. Did the government/mint discontinue this because of production costs? I understand and I'm good with having former presidents on our notes. However making them a little more ornate would be nice. It's a shame that 2nd and 3rd world countries take more pride in their paper currency. Furthermore, most foreign money is engraved by the U.S. Mint. What an insult....
The design changed when the series changed, or in some case the type of note (Silver Certificate, Treasury note, etc). But I think the current back of the $2 bill is beautiful too, don't you?
@@TheTwoDollarBillDocumentary Certainly is. I've heard that the obverse of the "older" $2 notes was a depiction of a Masonic lodge meeting. Is this correct in your opinion? I have no animosity towards the Masonic Order at all. Just was looking for a more educated opinion about this. You have a great channel. Thanks Michael
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Why do 2 dollar bills exist?
Same reason $1s, $5s and $10s do. Not really worth a video to explain. Back in 1862, they made a $2 as the next bill after the $1. Things cost less so it made sense. It stuck around.