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<p>[QUOTE="Troodon, post: 441613, member: 4626"]She was treasurer from 6/21/74 to 1/19/77. She was appointed late in Nixon's 2nd term and served for Ford's entire presidency. You'll find her signature on various series 1974 notes as well.</p><p><br /></p><p>The only $2 bills with her signature are in fact series 1976 (in fact all series 1976 notes are $2 bills). Series 1976 was the last major redesign to the $2 bill and the first Federal Reseve note to have a $2 denomination. It was hoped to revive the denomination and save on printing costs, the idea being that people could use one of these in place of two one-dollar bills. That never played out because people had been used to doing without a $2 bill for a good 14 years previous to that and saw the 1976 bill as mainly a commemorative novelty (very popular amongst people collecting it to commemoratie the bicentennial). It never caught on to being a practically circulating bill again.</p><p><br /></p><p>However apparently enough people wanted it as a novelty or to collect it or whatever for the Federal Reserve to issue later series, periodically... since 1976 there's been a series 1995, 2003, and the most recent, 2003A.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Troodon, post: 441613, member: 4626"]She was treasurer from 6/21/74 to 1/19/77. She was appointed late in Nixon's 2nd term and served for Ford's entire presidency. You'll find her signature on various series 1974 notes as well. The only $2 bills with her signature are in fact series 1976 (in fact all series 1976 notes are $2 bills). Series 1976 was the last major redesign to the $2 bill and the first Federal Reseve note to have a $2 denomination. It was hoped to revive the denomination and save on printing costs, the idea being that people could use one of these in place of two one-dollar bills. That never played out because people had been used to doing without a $2 bill for a good 14 years previous to that and saw the 1976 bill as mainly a commemorative novelty (very popular amongst people collecting it to commemoratie the bicentennial). It never caught on to being a practically circulating bill again. However apparently enough people wanted it as a novelty or to collect it or whatever for the Federal Reserve to issue later series, periodically... since 1976 there's been a series 1995, 2003, and the most recent, 2003A.[/QUOTE]
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