this 1976 bill was bought in 1st cple days offerd at local bank. Went straight to photo album. I took out this week to look at , 1st time since i put in album as a kid. Well it looks as if someone put in pocket to try to sell, ?.. It's stiil here but has 7,8 fold marks and 1 corner and other edge was put back folded. At least i still got it, i hope. Looking at it , it's so wrong either it's fake or worth a lot. Look at pics and tell me wacha think.
What's "so wrong" about it? It's not "wrong", and it's not fake, and it's not worth a lot, either. It's real. Your typical circulated Series 1976 $2 bill. Worth face value as-is. Two bucks. Sometimes a folded corner has to do with a silly superstition that some people have about $2 bills being bad luck. Some people actually tear the corners off them. But in this case, that particular (tiny) fold just looks like a typical result of circulation, rather than anything done superstitiously.
So the green stamp iuta place, letters underneath ,the word "the" with the "e" looks stamped 3 times. The reverse isn't double stamped? Thats all normal?
I don't see any double printing on the reverse? As to the Treasury seal being out of place (if that's what you mean by the "green stamp"), I don't know. I can see now how you'd think it was out of place, but is it really any different from any other $2 bills of this series? I don't know. I doubt it. I'm not a currency collector and I don't have any $2 bills on hand in my wallet to compare it to. Search up pictures of other 1976 series notes to see if your Treasury seal is different. I'll defer to the paper people on that one. I don't collect paper money, but I've spent these. This looks like a normal $2 bill to me.
It's a normal, everyday deuce. A spender. I sometimes pick up a bunch of them and use them for tips or small purchases. The reactions of the people receiving them can be a lot of fun.
I have always thought of $2 bills as being really cool. I think they started making them in 1928. The bill posted looks normal to me.
Just a normal 1976 $2.00 bill. It's worth face value. If memory serves me correctly, an act of congress (strange as it may seam) first passed and $2.00 bills for circulation followed in the late 1860's.
I only heard this as a kid and I don't know the accuracy...I think my mom told me...I heard the $2 dollar bills were used to pay U.S. military people overseas to see where they spent there money.
Common to find these at race tracks since the smallest bet is two dollars. During the depression politicians paid two dollars for votes and many of them were passed out. Prior to 1900 $2 was a week's pay for unskilled labor. A carpenter or plumber would get $5. During the bicentennial lots of folks put a stamp on these and took them to the post office to get cancelled. I was around then but overseas and never got the memo why folks would want to do that. Most folks now consider those cancelled two dollar bills to be damaged and only worth face value. Some folks will soak off the stamps then you have a two dollar bill with part of a cancellation.
