Recently I've taken to buying straps of $2 2003 series notes from my bank, search through to make sure there's no interesting serial numbers or other marvels and then :gasp: spend them. I want people to remember that the $2 still exists and that two is more convenient than one a great deal of the time....especially here on the east coast where almost nothing costs less than a buck and often a lot closer to two bucks. I am happy to give crisp CU notes to anyone but another coin dealer. I'll be dipped if they're going to turn around and try to sell my deuce for $4 or $5 to an unsuspecting soul...so I make sure those $2s are fairly well circulated before I use them to satisfy my other collecting addictions. Call me eccentric.
Hey you, Eccentric!!! Just doing what you asked us to do...LOL Could not pass that offer by...post some of those finds!! RickieB
I guess I opened the door and you just stepped through. BTW, Got my '02 DB $5 NBN back from PMG today. Graded as 45 choice EF, which was a pleasant surprise. I'd post the pix, but it's still the same note as when I posted before, just now encased in what I hope is archival plastic. N
I got a strapped bunch the other day for my niece and nephew. I spend them whenever I can get them, and I know a 14 year old and a 10 year old will too. My kids currently aren't spending theirs, they are saving for a Wii system.
I always have loved the $2 and once I get a little summer job money I will be able to stop by the bank, put my earnings in my savings account [for some K2 Apache Skis], save some for college and finally use some of the money to purchase coins/currency.
I get a full bundle every week or two. I spend as many as I possibly can before cashing in the rest to buy the next bundle.
I don't do this on as big of scale as some people here apparently lol... but I do ocassion stop by the banks in my local area to see af any have $2's. I'll look for anything interesting that I think is worth saving, and spend the rest. I also just like the fun of spending $2's... you'd be suprised how many people have never seen them or haven't seen them for so long they assume they're no longer made. I do this with half dollars on ocassion too. To keep my Kennedy half collection I'll also buy rolls from the Mint every year and spend the ones I don't keep (so if you find any post-2001 Kennedy halves in circulation, they may have been mine at some point lol...)
I've been holding on to $150 dollars worth but I think it is time to spend them or trade them in at the bank for some new twos or some old style bills. The twos I have don't have any interesting numbers, and 2003 A's are just a bit too new. it is just hard to get rid of such nice cripsy ones.
