Consider picking up a book on Small sized paper money. Maybe your local coin shop has one. Two I recommend: A Guide Book Of United States Paper Money: 2nd Edition Standard Guide to Small-Size U.S. Paper Money - 1928-Date
As said there were a ton of the notes printed. And because the notes were 'different' everyone saved them thinking they would be worth something someday. That menas today, crisp 1976 $2 notes are not too hard to find and dont command high permiums. There are excpetions with this series, but not too many. Its funny though - A while ago i started a 'quest' of completing a dual 1976 $2 set consisting of the 2 different lettering styles. Some notes are just absolutely non-existant! But when i do find 1, they are so very cheap. The collective hobby hasnt picked up on the scarsity because nobody but silly me is doing this lol
Daggarjon, what are the 2 different lettering styles? I was unaware that there was a different variety.
take a look here at the bottom of the page to see exmaples of the 2 types. The 2 types were COPE and conventional.
I've looked at both styles of notes, and can't seem to see any difference. What should I be looking for or at ?
I seem to notice some slight folds towards the bottom center of the note. That would knock it down to XF grade and due to the amount of bills produced for this year, face value is about all it is worth.
I ask for $2 notes once a week at my local bank; this past Friday I hit the jackpot. $80 worth, all crisp 1976 with consectutive serial numbers. I use them for my $2 bridge toll every morning.
Yes, some of them *are* nonexistent: the Richmond and San Francisco printings are entirely COPE, so there are no (non-star) conventional notes for those districts. All of the stars in the series are conventional, though. And if you're willing to cheat a bit, you *can* get a conventional note from the E..A block out of an uncut sheet...but even that trick won't help you for L..A. For those of you not following what's going on: The BEP upgraded its overprinting lines in the '70s, and the result was a minor change in the font of the serial numbers. The COPE serials are generally bolder and thicker than the older conventional serials, and certain letters are a bit differently shaped on the two versions. Both styles were in use simultaneously for several years, so there's a lot of alternating back and forth between them in the serial number sequence, especially in the $1 notes. See here for more on these varieties. They were quite the craze back in the days when COPE was new--some of the smaller groups (a few of the $1 conventional groups were only 160,000 notes long!) were selling for astronomical prices for a while. Nowadays nobody much cares, it seems, but I still think they're kinda neat....
Thanks for the more informative explanation Numbers I did know that some districts were litteraly 'not produced', but my comment for 'non existant' was for districts that were produced, but i couldnt find lol
1976 was the bicentiental era. I thought $2 were worth something today if you had yours stamped with the opening release date? Ofcourse this was back in the day, not this day....
they can be worth more to the right collector. I dont collect stamped notes, so cannot provide values.
