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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Drago the Wolf, post: 1364818, member: 22476&quot;]Hey, good news for all of you who collect paper currency and want to see something new in the $2 bill.</p><p><br /></p><p>I talked to a guy at the Bureau of Engraving &amp; Printing&#039;s &quot;general inquires&quot; phone number for a while about asking if the $2 bill would be redesigned for features for the visually impaired, and he just told me &quot;No, the plans are only for the $5 bill and up to be redesigned, because $1 and $2 bills are the two most rare denominations to be counterfeited&quot; and I asked him, &quot;Well, can&#039;t the $2 bill be redesigned for features for the visually impaired, even if not for security features? Sometimes it is hard to tell a $1 bill from a $2 bill&quot; and he said, &quot;Well, you should take that up with your Congressmen, and you can write to the Treasury, and Federal Reserve, as they are in charge of what will be ordered&quot; So I said &quot;So, right now there are no plans to even put features for the visually impaired on the $2 bill?&quot; and he said &quot;Yep&quot; He wasn&#039;t rude or anything.</p><p><br /></p><p>But that is not the end of the story.</p><p><br /></p><p>So, I decided, &quot;Well, just for the heck of it, I will call the media center of the BEP&quot;, and the lady I talked to, I asked &quot;Is the $2 bill being redesigned with the next currency redesign with features for the visually impaired?&quot; And she said &quot;Yes it is&quot; and I said, &quot;Really? Because, I just talked to another person from the BEP, and he said that the $2 bill is not being redesigned&quot; and she said &quot;Thats not true. We are redesigning ALL denominations as mandated by law and that includes the $2 bill. The only denomination we are not redesigning, is the $1 bill, because Congress has prohibitted it, and we are not doing anything with the $100 bill for a while, due to the fact that the new colorized $100 bill is not even in circulation yet&quot; and I said, &quot;Yeah, and I know why. Too high of costs to small businesses and the vending industry&quot; and she said &quot;You are correct&quot; and I asked, &quot;Well, what do they plan to do? Put large numerals, more white space, and an enlarged portrait on the $2 bill?&quot; and she said &quot;We don&#039;t know yet. We are still in the designing process&quot; and I said, &quot;Well, thank you very much! You made my day. I have wanted the $2 bill to be redesigned for many years. Thats about all I need&quot; So we said our good byes and that was the end of the conversation.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now I can&#039;t help but wonder what the new $2 bill will look like, but I hope it looks very similar to the $5- $100 bills of the next generation of currency, instead of just a few minor changes. Oh, and I believe that the next redesign is coming soon.</p><p><br /></p><p>Looks like the coming of a redesigned $2 bill explains just &quot;why&quot; the Series 2009 print run of the current style $2 bills to be printed later this year are only going to be such a short run that, the supply will only last until 2014. Because that is probably the year that the next currency redesign will start, if not 2013. Then there might be redesigned Series 2013 or Series 2014 redesigned $2 bills. So I will probably try to save a few new straps and sheets of the current style $2 bill.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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