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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;krispy, post: 1100728, member: 19065&quot;]They are overprinted $2 notes. It is probably a commercial digital printing process. Most likely they print on uncut sheets of currency purchased from the BEP, then trimmed and assembled in those presentation cards they are accompanied with. The New England Mint probably contracts a commercial printer for this unless the BEP has a service for printing these notes for the aftermarket(?). Notice they are careful not to obscure SNs, Federal Reserve and Treasury seals, and the other denominational and legal disclaimers on the note that this is legal tender and could be used. That is, the notes are not altered as currency and could be used to buy or pay for things. Due to the overprinting the notes are worthless to serious numismatic collectors and amount to a novelty item with a lot of flashy decorations marketed to people who may also know of the National Parks Quarters program from the US Mint which has been marketed to coin collectors. These overprinted $2 notes may even prove difficult to use as currency in real world transactions since many people already think $2 notes are fake. The general public are likely to find these decorated notes just more bogus play money or counterfeits, as they already discount less commonly seen currency denominations to be such anyway.</p><p><b><a href="http://www.newenglandmintcoins.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWCATS&amp;Category=13" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.newenglandmintcoins.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWCATS&amp;Category=13" rel="nofollow"><br /></a></b></p><p><b><a href="http://www.newenglandmintcoins.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWCATS&amp;Category=13" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.newenglandmintcoins.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWCATS&amp;Category=13" rel="nofollow">New England Mint</a></b>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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