Many banks yes, many others no. The only way to find out is to ask. The stack's face value would be $2 times the number of bills. If you mean a standard pack, 100 bills would have a face value of $200, and most likely a numismatic value of one cent more than $199.99.
Lol, i just think he asked that question so he knew how much to expect it to cost him....in other words if he should take $100, $300 or $500 withhim to purchase the stack.
I routinely ask for $2 bills at my bank when I get cash... and they usually only have a few or sometimes as many as a dozen. But they told me that anytime I want they can order them on about two days notice in lots of $1000.
I been told by my bank (BOA) that if the bank needs to order coin or paper currency from the reserve banks they have to pay more then face value. So banks may or may not, "as earlier stated", want to fill your request if they are out of $2.00 bills. Best bet is to go to a large city, if you don't already live in one and hit as many banks (large branches), not just yours, and see if you can find a new stack of bills still banded. Just a thought.
I Go To Branch Banks All The Time And Pick Up 2 Dollar Bills. My Lastest Find Was A Series 1957 Graded Fine.
That's a load of They pay the armored car company for delivering cash, but they have that bill regardless of what's included in any particular part of the delivery.
So it isn't a "load of bull" it's the truth. If they have to pay for currency, they have to pay more then face value. What's so hard to understand about that.
I think what he is saying is that banks order cash all the time so the bill is coming regardless of what they order. So for the bank not to honor your request based on that reasoning is a load of B... They just do not care about customer service or your business.
In the 15 years I worked for banks (1980-96), there was never a week in which the cash taken in and the cash paid out in any branch was exactly equal. As a result, every week (except in main branches which had more frequent deliveries) each branch either shipped money, received money, or did both via armored car. Brinks and its competitors charge by the trip, not by the amount of cash transported.
About a month ago I asked my personal banker to order me 200 two dollar bills. I told him I wanted brand new in BEP wrappers, two stacks. I'm pretty sure all money comes in wraps of 100 bills regardless of denomination? Anyway, in about four days he called telling me he had the bills. I went in and gave them $400 ($2 each). What ticked me of a little was he took them out of the wrap and stuck them in their stupid counting machine, said it was bank policy. Thanks, Douglas
its true though, you can buy a qualtity of 1000 $2 bills. what is commonly referred to as a brick. the brick is a big cellophane wrapped package from the federl reserve. Ive seen these on ebay. usually unopened. So the part about the bank putting it thru the cash counter might be voluntary. they might be willing to not do that. the brick of 1000 bills would be ten packs of 100 bills. they dealers on ebay charge around $2200 for those. a ten percent mark-up. you can pay the mark-up on ebay, if you're intimidated by going to the bank and trying to place an order. The $2 bills are a nice novelty, but the coin show guys will tell you they're not worth anything, and wont be for a long time. but you like $2 bills? get a brick of 1000 bills and put them in a safety deposit box. and if time goes buy and they're still worth $2 each, go to your stock broker and buy shares of stock with it.
