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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Troodon, post: 497388, member: 4626&quot;]Simple answer is, because people rarely get them.&nbsp; Banks don&#039;t issue them to people unless they specifically ask... and almost all retailers who get any as payment just immediately deposit them at the bank when they get a chance (unless employees who collect them or want them as novelties buy them out of the drawer).</p><p><br /></p><p>So rarely issued, and not long in circulation when they&#039;re actually spent, that&#039;s pretty much why you don&#039;t see many in circulation.&nbsp; Anybody who goes out of their way to get any though usually use them if they&#039;re not going to save them.</p><p><br /></p><p>As to how the $2 bill got that way... well it used to actually be as commonly used as the $1 bill, but as the trasition was made from United States notes to Federal Reserve notes, the $2 bill got left out of the loop for about 10 years when the $2 FRN was finally issued.&nbsp; By that time, people had learned to do without it, and people quit bothering to leave a spot for it in cash register drawers.&nbsp; When it finally returned, in 1976, many saw it as a novelty designed to commemorate the bicentennial (especially since The Declearation of Independence painting replaced Monticello on the reverse).&nbsp; Thus, it was just saved, and not spent, even though the Federal Reserve was hoping that people would use it and thus lower the amount of $1 bills they had to print (never worked out that way!).&nbsp; Eventually, the Series 1976 was exhauseted, and 1995 they issued a new series, but it seemed other than people collecting or saving them as novelties, it wasn&#039;t getting used much, so quite a few years pass between issues.&nbsp; THere&#039;s been a Series 2003 and 2003A since... they&#039;re still printed in the millions... just seldom used in actual circulation.&nbsp; Likely theyre will be a new series once 2003A is exhausted, probably not for about another 3 to 5 years though.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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