What part of the country does the $2 get used?

Is there any part of the country that the $2 get used much? You would get it as change? Out here, in the northwest, I don't see them much. I do get them from the bank sometimes and spend them. I have only recieved them as change a couple times and that was about 15 years ago.

 

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I have done a lot of travelling (49 states) and I don't know of any place where $2 bills are in common use.

 

Well I get them and spend them from time to time here in SoCal, but I've never received one in change other than from a coin dealer.

Other than that the only time I've heard about them being used in recent years is at some of the higher end strip clubs in Vegas where they are given out in change to encourage you to hand out higher tips to the employees than if you had been given singles. Well that's what a friend told me at least... yeah, wasn't me, a friend told me

 

I use a debit card, PayPal and on-line BillPay for almost everything, so I seldom see any circulated cash. I did however get a couple of uncirculated, run-of-the-mill $2's from Russell & Linda at the Sellitstore after purchasing some Mylar-D holders. I would imagine the the general public look at them as a novelty when received as change, cause friends that see my 4-note sheets think they are fake or something.

 

When Canada had two dollar bills, there were common at the horse races. I haven't been to the track for 25 years. Do they still use them at the track in the States?

 

The Canadian $2's were fairly common, and got more so during that period between the late 1980's when the Loony came out but before the Twonie came out in the mid 1990's. I even spent some of the earlier ones from the 1950's and 1970's with no problems.

 

This is a bit off topic, but, are halves about as common as $2 bill in use, or less common?

I tend to think that $2 bills circulate more widely than halves, due to the fact that there are vending and self checkout machines that DO take $2 bills, but I have NOT ran into ANY machine that will accept a half, except for CoinStar machines.

Say? Do bank coin counters that you use for free accept halves, like CoinStars?

 

In my area, Northern Michigan, I can say I NEVER see either, not the 2's, and not the halves. I shop with cash, I frequent a lot of places. I always try to get them at the bank. Same thing for the one-dollar coins. Never see them out and about. Never.

 

I see a few around here. I never get any good ones. My wife brought home 3 the other day

 

I get dollar coins mostly, and the ocassional half, $2 bill Ike or SBA dollar from a cashier friend at 7 Eleven here in Southern Michigan. I guess some people use them a little bit around here, but I just buy them from the guy so I can recirculate them, as he says, if he tries to hand them out in change, he sometimes gets negative reactions, and who wants to make someone mad when working alone at a conveience store in the middle of the night, with no bullet proof glass around you?

 

A few years ago, a man was taken to the station by Baltimore Police for supposedly passing counterfeit $2 notes. He was a tour bus driver who routinely transported children during the summer to various amusement parks. Upon arrival, he would give each child a $2 bill for spending money. One particularly slow week, he had a bunch of them left over, so he decided to pay for his breakfast at McDonalds with some of them. The girl at the register looked at them oddly and told the man she couldn't accept them because they were counterfeit. He tried to convince her that they were real, and she finally summoned the manager who agreed that they were counterfeit. The customer was beginning to get irritated and the manager summoned the Baltimore Police. When the police arrived, they were shown the bills and agreed that they were counterfeit because the US doesn't make $2 bills. The customer was then transported to the police station where several other officers were shown the bills including the duty sergeant and the watch commander. Finally, they called the Secret Service and informed them they had a suspect who had been passing counterfeit $2 bills. Secret Service agents were dispatched from Washington, DC, and when they finally arrived a few hours later, they were shown the counterfeit bills and they asked, "What's wrong with them?" Naturally, the "suspect" filed suit naming McDonalds and the Baltimore Police Department as defendants. Needless to say, they both settled out of court for what was expected to be a sizeable sum.

NOW, EVERYBODY IN BALTIMORE CARRIES $2 BILLS WITH THEM!

Chris

 

I have never been to any of these places personally, but I've heard that Monticello, the San Diego Zoo, and Sea World in San Diego, CA give out twos as change.

 

There is a scrap metal dealer in Houston who advertises on the radio and always mentions that he will pay you with $2 bills.

 

When I was a kid and asked my parents for money I usually got a $2 bill, this was Canada though, I think they were pretty ugly imo that nasty brown color.

 

cpm9ball -- Love the story! LOL! Before leaving the US I spent most of my time in Ohio and Boston and never saw any $2 bills in circulation. So when I'm in the US I will sometimes go through the stack of $2's that I have sitting with some of my coins. These were all gifts.

 

I've only received a $2 bill in chance once, and that was because someone in front of me in line had just spent it. Then I bought something and the cashier didn't have enough $1's, so I got the $2.

Anyway, I'm not sure there's one particular location - unless of course there happens to be a small town that has an unusually high number of coin collectors per capita. - though I haven't heard of this mythical place yet.

 

Kudos to your friend then, I mean, seriously - these "employee's" have to pay for college somehow

 

I get the occasional dollar coin, the very occasional half dollar and practically no $2 bills at all.

 

Have a boat load of $2 bills (Series 2003) from the gun range I use to go to! The owner loved to hand them out as change because of the symbolism of the signing of freedom and the fight gun owners and gun ranges wage every freaking day... It also made change from the till a lot easier cause the range fee was $13 bucks for an all day ticket... Jackson - $13 = Lincoln & Jefferson... I often oped for three Jefferson's and a four metal Washington's(For the pop machine!)...

 

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