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 Posted 08/17/2013  11:54 pm Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add 168Bagua to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
I wasn't so sure to keep or spend. This note is roughly 40 years old,
Quality is horrible. I inherited this note from my dads old wallet.

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 Posted 08/17/2013  11:57 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add qbvbsite to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
spend... worth $2
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 Posted 08/18/2013  12:14 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add kuh_85 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Keep for fun if you don't have a better one. Value will probably never be more than $2 in your lifetime though.
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 Posted 08/18/2013  12:51 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Wade to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
if it came from MY dad's old wallet I would say it's priceless...
some things just can't be replaced for face value
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 Posted 08/18/2013  02:06 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add middross to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
with wade.
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Canada
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 Posted 08/18/2013  04:58 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Corrupted to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Keep for now. I have a several $1 and $2 bills that I give out to nieces and nephews. They like them for the strange and neat factor. I do this in hope that one of them will pick up the hobby.
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 Posted 08/18/2013  11:59 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add gidjit to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
spend it, I like to spend old notes and nickle 50 cent and dollar coins at fortinos it confuses the young kids and they dont know what to do, last time I spent a 1973 dollar the girl took it as an american $
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 Posted 08/18/2013  12:52 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Joseph7420 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Keep, it's only two dollars.
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 Posted 08/18/2013  1:08 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add darryldarryl to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Its not going to worth more than two bucks!
I had a few one and two dollar bills and gave them to my eight year old daughter to spend at Zellers several months back.
It was our turn to pay and my daughter presented the bills to the cashier. The cashier looked at them and told us that she would have to call her manager over to ok the bills. The manager comes over and looks at the bills and told us that he could not accept the bills as he could not authenticate them.

I just laughed hard and paid with toonies and loonies and left the store feeling very very old! WOW!!
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 Posted 08/18/2013  3:18 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add DaytR to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Oh wow ! It looks real nice , Keep :)
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 Posted 08/18/2013  3:54 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add billfrak to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Buy a coffee
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 Posted 08/19/2013  5:54 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add nickelphr33k to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Keep. Like Wade said, it's a priceless souvenir from your dad. I like to use old worn bills like that for bookmarks.
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Canada
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 Posted 08/19/2013  6:17 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Paisa to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Everyone sees differently when it comes to collecting. If someone close to where I lived showed me the bill I would pay at least $2.25 for it. Reason is simple. I collect word prefixes and this starts with an ARC. Although the condition is perhaps a G I would not mind adding it to my collection for that price.

Lets see 0.25 on $2 thats more than 10% the last time I knew how to do calculations.

But then I am sure people on this forum may have a name for a guy like me which may starts with a - you know what I mean

The answer to your question: - If you think you want to keep it for investment then I think your $2 will earn a better return somewhere else. If you think you want to keep it for sentimental reasons so that for years there will be a story around it then there is a value in keeping it.

If all else fails mail it to me in Canada and next time you are hear I will buy you a real treat at Starbucks
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 Posted 08/19/2013  6:26 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add glenzy1 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Remember when you graduated from High School and you bought the "year Book" of the year you graduated for $20.00 more or less. I did too, back in 1979. It has pics of all the friends, teachers, colleagues and acquaintances I went to school with during those three years at Moncton High.
Today, 35 years later, you couldn't pry that book outta my hands for $1,000.00 because of the sentimental value. That's exactly what that $2.00 bill will be like for you 35 years from now!

Glenn
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 Posted 08/19/2013  6:32 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add doubleeagle59 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
I'm with the 'spend it' crowd.
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Give it as a tip, the server will love it and you will be remembered next time. Wealways leave something different like a fifty cent piece a nickel dollar a US two or some other fun item as part of a tip.
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