I got a bunch of pretty crispy $2 bills with low serial numbers at the bank yesterday. I'd hate to just spend them but I'm not sure they're even worth anything more than face. Should I try to sell them? And if so, do I go to eBay or is there somewhere else I can sell them? Or should I just save them? Thanks!
Unless there are some serial numbers which are repeaters or radar's, I would say spend them. You would have to hold them perhaps 25 years to see any appreciation. You could take one of them and send it in for grading hoping for a 68 or so. Then put it away for that 25 year period as well.
Or I could go buy girl scout cookies with them and watch their little eyes widen. I did that last weekend. The girls thought they were the coolest things ever.
There doesn't seem anything particularly worth noting with these bills; therefore, I say that they're spenders.
Either way Every time I withdraw a strap of $2s from my bank, they're fresh BEP straps. I spend them (and do Where's George), but if you can find some sucker to pay more than face, go for it, and get more at your bank.
I'm sorry, but there's nothing remarkable about these $2's. I don't consider the serial numbers low unless they have at least 4 leading zer0's.
Not terribly low but they are indeed crispy. But I do agree nothing super spectacular. BUT she likes em, so there ya go. Salty has a good idea there hon. Maybe we should send one or two in for grins.
sold a strap of '76 Unc $2 bills last year for $15 over face. Unless special S/N or error, they are spenders.
that's like saving clad kennedy halves, bicentennial quarters and the like. There are plenty of them and they will not appreciate at any meaningful rate. sell them if you can. They do make cool tips You'd be much better off hoarding rolls of nickels than these.
If you think they're cool (like me), keep them. In my opinion, 8 bucks isn't worth much, wouldn't be useful to spend
I'd probably spend them, but have a interesting story about someone doing just that. The local coin club, of which I am Treasurer, has an annual coin show. We sell raffle tickets for silver coin drawings. This year, thinking to be clever, I got some rolls of $1 coins and packs of $2 bills to give out for change. No one complained, some even asked to 'buy' more. One day, after the show had closed for the evening, our Club President stopped at the local McD's for supper and decided to use his $2 bills. The young cashier wouldn't take them and called the manager on duty; who suspected they were counterfeit because he also had never seen them. The Pres. told them he had just come from the coin show in town (this is a small town), and that we were working with local law enforcement for security. Still wouldn't take them. This man, the would-be customer, is also a part-time coin dealer, and head of the journalism school at a nearby University. The staff finally took them only after calling the store owner. I'd seen stories like this before but never thought it would happen to someone I know, right here in the Midwest. Kind of puts a perspective on why changes in circulating currency, coins or bills, aren't always eagerly received.
Don't mean to hijack your thread, but I got six $2 bills today from the bank. All 2003, no big deal. But I'm keeping them. I just love the look of the $2 bill. Two of the bills are very crispy and appear to have been sitting in a book for 20 years (my guess.) They feel very nice too. Don't appear to have been circulated very much.
VACooky, I understand that so many people want to "sock drawer" any $2 bills they come across, but there are well over $1,000,000,000 worth of them in circulation. Don't be afraid to spend them and just get more from the bank. Those aren't special. I even write on the back of some (non-numismatic) $2s that they are not rare: please spend them and get more. You can get your bank to keep them in stock for you. It's just another denomination, albeit a denomination that is not commonly requested from banks. Therefore, there is just an untrue perception that they're "special." My recommendation: keep getting them from the bank and spend them as you would $1s and $5s.
