Most of us like to have any kind of U.S. paper money, whether a 1-dollar bill, a 5 or whatever. We don’t often hold on to paper bills long. But some of us collect unusual ones.
So, when was the last time you saw a $2 bill? First issued in 1862, they’re not extremely rare, but they’re not quite so common as other types of bills.
Some people are hesitant about that particular denomination. Some consider it lucky, some unlucky. (If you have any legal bill, of any denomination, you’re lucky.)
At any rate, you may have spotted a full-page advertisement on Page A3 of yesterday’s paper. The ad was selling $2 bills. It read, in part, “Valuable uncut sheets of never circulated $2 bills are actually being released to the first 7,028 callers who find their zip code on the distribution list below [in the ad] and beat the 48-hour deadline to get Vault Stacks full of real money.”
Well, there’s really no guarantee that the bills are going to rise in value, even though they are not printed as often as other denominations. But whether the subject is $2 bills, silver dollars or the $14 trillion national debt, money certainly gets our attention and “talks,” doesn’t it?