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New Member
United States
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hi there, I really love $2 bills and it is pretty much the only paper currency that I use. I have probably spent thousands of them. I'm just curious has anyone had any problems spending them or fun stories of peoples reactions? For example the other day I purchased a pizza with some twos a dollar coin and a half dollar. The girl who was probably 16 said Wow! What are these!? Then she immediately held the twos up to the light to look for a security strip (which they do not have). She then started asking other employees if they were fake haha. I assured her that they were real. She set them aside in the register and said she was keeping them for herself. That is just one of my experiences, please share yours. If you want to start spending twos(or dollar coins which I also love) get them from your bank. They can order them if they don't have any.  Edited by mikey199x
05/08/2012 12:41 am
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I spend dollar and half dollar coins regularly. I just spent some halves over the weekend and the cashier cashed them out, said I want these! Some people have never seen half dollar, don't even know if they are worth 50 cents or a dollar.
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New Member
 United States
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Haha one time I purchased something with the big Ike dollars and the cashier was telling me they were only worth fifty cents. he thought they were halves. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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LOL, I like spending Ike's at convenience stores...particularly if the clerk is younger. The two's are a good idea too!
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I've spent the dollar coins, but haven't try the $2 notes yet.
Those are some really nice packs of notes in CU. Do you ever find any star notes? Do you save them?
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New Member
United States
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Yes I do find star notes. Out of about $8000 dollars worth I have found about 15. I have also found 1 first day issue note stamped on the release date back in 1976. I have held onto most of them but some I have sold.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I spent some twos at a gas station the other day, and instead of putting them in the cash drawer, he fed them into some machine. Maybe for security purposes they only keep small bills for making change in the drawers and put large bills in the machine, and since twos don't have a slot in the drawer, they go in with the big bills.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Deuces, Large and small dollars and Half dollars circulate regularly in OKC. Thanks for the reminder, gotta replenish my "walking around" money.
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05/08/2012 1:36 pm
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Funny, in my area you get strange looks when you spend $2 notes, not because people don't know what they are, but because all the strip clubs around here give them as change! Every time you spend one you get the look like "where were you last night!?"
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Valued Member
United States
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yeah, I actually made a friend in college by trading him a dirty half dollar for dimes to be used for making copies of a homework assignment :D
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I get $2s in my drawer at work relatively often (say . . . 8-10 times per month, and for some reason I can go days on end without a single $2 but when I get one, boom, by the end of the night I've had $10-12 in $2s), and I have plenty of fun stories about handing them out. The jokes about the strip clubs are pretty common, but I've also had quizzical looks, people who refused to take them on the grounds that they were fake . . .
. . . . now that I think about it, I know exactly what my favourite $2 story is. Well, one of them. I had a guy spot one in my drawer and go "cool, can I buy that?" and hand me a $1 . . . and a $1 silver certificate. (Oh, the irony!) Also had a clueless soccer mom who thought poor Jefferson was a woman.
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New Member
United States
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So today I made another purchase with twos and the cashier asked if he could buy the remainder of the ones in my wallet (which I was fine with since I have a never ending supply of them)
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Valued Member
Canada
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Wow, that looks like a lot of money in that picture! The toonie [two dollar coin in Canada] circulated way more than the US $2 bill but when you use a 50 cent piece to pay for something they double check it, like someone would waste metal on 50 cents. Also, whenever I'm in the States I go to a bank and take out $2's and dollar coins. I don't like paper dollars. \  Edited by MercuryDime
05/12/2012 10:06 pm
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Yesterday I was buying some beer and one of the cashiers wanted all the twos I had on me, but only the "I" ones. I had $30 worth for him. What's special about the twos from the Minneapolis fed?
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United States
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I had a mix of 1976, 1995, 2003 and 2003A, the bulk were probably 2003 and 2003A (I gues none of the Minneapolis ones would have been 1995). I'd already saved out the highest grade examples of each permutation of series and FRB for my own collection and there weren't any with particularly interesting serials.
Is a mintage printing that low sufficient by itself to make mint examples worth saving?
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05/17/2012 3:05 pm
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