Return of the $2 Bill Conspiracy

[kevin_standlee]

I like using $2 bills, especially at conventions. Actually, I think the USA should follow Canada and stop printing $1 bills, embrace the $1 coin, and use the $2 bill. (Yes, I know Canada dropped the $2 bill as well; one step at at time.) One of the reasons I use them at conventions is as an attempt to show that we're putting money into the hotel in a noticeable way. I use them primarily for tips, so as to spread it around.

But getting $2 bills can be a hassle sometimes. Yesterday, I went to the branch near my office and inquired about them. the teller said there were two bundles of $200 each in the vault if I'd like to buy an entire bundle. I agreed, and a few minutes later I was handed a brand new bundle of one hundred $2 bills.

This is a bit much, even for me, and even though Lisa will want some of them. If anyone wants to buy some of them off of me, particularly if you're planning to use them for Westercon expenses at-con, see me at BASFA or at the con and we'll deal.

Comments

[smofbbs.livejournal.com]

My grandmother used to pay for my piano lessons with $2 silver certificates....

[kproche.livejournal.com]

I'll be happy to buy some.

[sethb.livejournal.com]

I'll take as many as you want to get rid of.

$2 bills

[lindadee.livejournal.com]

I'll take some. I still have a couple of $1 and $2 silver certificates. Collectors'items, I guess.

[mkillingworth.livejournal.com]

I'd love to have some, but I'm not sure how we would work out the exchange. We have a US bank account, I'm just not sure how we could make the switch.

[shsilver.livejournal.com]

I use $2 bills as bookmarks. When they loose their crispness, I get replacements from the bank and put the old ones into circulation. I've had more than one author autographing books for me comment on my unique book mark.

[waywardcats.livejournal.com]

I like that you're doing that, I won't be at the con, but maybe I will get some to generally spread around. I do that sometimes with the dollar coins sometimes, but cashiers still look at me funny occasionally.

I would also like to see us dump the penny as Australia has done.

[johno.livejournal.com]

It's a long established way of informing a area that group is moving $$ into their coffers.

I'll gladly trade you a more common $20 or two, for 10 or 20 $2 bills.



When C & I were cleaning out her Aunt's house after, Aunt Ginny had passed away. We found a large jar of silver dollars and half-dollars. Doing a quick check, we found they were nothing special. So C & her cousin split the coins.

On the way home, we found we were cash poor at a restaurant. So we paid with the coins. The young clerk clearly didn't believe us that they real money and went in back ask. All we clearly heard "It still spends. Accept it!"

[melchar.livejournal.com]

I'm interested! I'll be there and have a 20 or 2 for $2's. Yay!

[kevin-standlee.livejournal.com]

Wow, at this rate, I'm going to have to go buy that other bundle of $2 bills from my local branch's vault!

[tkunsman.livejournal.com]

Curious to see what you might do in Japan. Tips are really not part of custom in Japan, but more to the point I really can't think of an equivalent to the $2 bill in Japanese currency.

[howeird]

While I love our $2 bill, I think it is the handsomest obverse of any bill in the collection, the reason countries do away with smaller bills is inflation. When it takes $2 to buy $1 worth of product, the dollar bill goes away, demoted to coinage.

I would rather not see that happen here. Canada did it when their dollar was buying about 2/3 of what it used to against the US dollar.

Historically, we made paper money to represent denominations which were too cumbersome to carry around as precious metal in our pockets. And it also let the Fed store the metal and issue paper surrogates, to slow the flow of gold and silver across the borders.

[mwillmoth.livejournal.com]

I think in this case the US should go metric. Namely, we should have 1c, 10c, 100c/$1, $10, $100 and $1000 denominations. Whether they are coins or bills isn't important, but for argument sake we make the first three coins and the last three bills. This would cut down on lots of confusion and truly show the world that we can do metric better :-)

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