What Do I Have Here?

Hydrant

I just now found a 2 dollar bill. It is a series 1976. It has a postal stamp of Anaheim, California April 13, 1976 on it and there is a 13¢ postage stamp with the Betsy Ross flag and Liberty Hall affixed to the upper right corner. What do I have here.

1630Boston

I have seen those
hold on

ifthevamzarockin

First day cancelation.

https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_nkw=1976+2+two+dollar+bill+first+day+of+issue&_sacat=0&rt=nc&LH_Sold=1&LH_Complete=1

BJandTundra

@ifthevamzarockin said:
First day cancelation.

A very popular diversion in the 70's. Sort of like a numismatic Beanie Baby.

1630Boston

I've seen a lot, usually with state stamps.............never seen a Betsy Ross stamp though.

ms70

Hard to see unless you enlarge it but it's also cancelled on the same date as yours. All the cool kids did it that day.

johnny9434

First day cancellation I remember them well

ChrisH821

First day of issue. The canceled stamp proves that it was a first day of issue note.
I bet post offices were mildly irritated stamping all these, but also glad to be selling so much postage. I wasn't around back then. I just put together a display of 50 of these notes, one for each state.

WAYNEAS

@Hydrant said:
I just now found a 2 dollar bill. It is a series 1976. It has a postal stamp of Anaheim, California April 13, 1976 on it and there is a 13¢ postage stamp with the Betsy Ross flag and Liberty Hall affixed to the upper right corner. What do I have here.

you have a newly issued 2 dollar bill that was postal canceled on the 13th of 1976. the only way to get a issued date was to get the new bills from a bank that could not issue them until the 13th and the run to the post office and have them place a stamp on the bill and have the post office cancel them to conform that the bill was a first day of issue. most of the bills were affixed with the bi-centennial stamp so others with different stamps are more "uncommon"

1630Boston

@WAYNEAS said:

@Hydrant said:
I just now found a 2 dollar bill. It is a series 1976. It has a postal stamp of Anaheim, California April 13, 1976 on it and there is a 13¢ postage stamp with the Betsy Ross flag and Liberty Hall affixed to the upper right corner. What do I have here.

you have a newly issued 2 dollar bill that was postal canceled on the 13th of 1976. the only way to get a issued date was to get the new bills from a bank that could not issue them until the 13th and the run to the post office and have them place a stamp on the bill and have the post office cancel them to conform that the bill was a first day of issue. most of the bills were affixed with the bi-centennial stamp so others with different stamps are more "uncommon"

I actually remember doing just that

MsMorrisine

there are first day quarter rolls with cancelled stamps on them. I never heard a complaint from back then about a PO not liking to do it. but ... how many would admit to it ...

now that the PO is soundly into losing a billion a year, perhaps they should promote such activities.

WAYNEAS

@1630Boston

side note: you were my 300th like, thanks
mine were "canceled" in Everett Ma

1630Boston

I think Everett is near Boston?

They have food................... and Casino

https://youtu.be/YvB84R9vqSg

https://youtu.be/eY00td_65mY

@wayneas

ms70

@ChrisH821 said:
First day of issue. The canceled stamp proves that it was a first day of issue note.
I bet post offices were mildly irritated stamping all these, but also glad to be selling so much postage. I wasn't around back then. I just put together a display of 50 of these notes, one for each state.

ChrisH that is AWESOME!

Hydrant

Thanks, everyone. Actually, I could have gone to the post office with it myself. I was working in Anaheim at that exact time. But I don't remember. Old age is a female dog!

1630Boston

like

1630Boston

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ChrisH821

@ms70 said:

@ChrisH821 said:
First day of issue. The canceled stamp proves that it was a first day of issue note.
I bet post offices were mildly irritated stamping all these, but also glad to be selling so much postage. I wasn't around back then. I just put together a display of 50 of these notes, one for each state.

ChrisH that is AWESOME!

Thanks! I've had the bills for over a year and only just got around to making the display last week. It's a pretty big display being two 24"x36" frames, but it would've been unwieldy and probably very expensive as a single giant frame. I still haven't decided where to hang it!

abcde12345

Anaheim.
Any chance you work at Disneyland?

ACop

Wild guess but it sounds like you might have a 2 dollar bill with a stamp on it.

Hydrant

@ACop said:
Wild guess but it sounds like you might have a 2 dollar bill with a stamp on it.

Wild guess but it sounds like you might have read the first post of this thread. Especially the part about me finding a 2 dollar bill with a stamp on it.

Hydrant

@abcde12345 said:
Anaheim.
Any chance you work at Disneyland?

No, Deathstar -7, I did not work at the Magic Kingdom. But.... the Matterhorn was always visible just beyond the stacks of 2x4's that I was moving around with my Mega-Hyster. Now THAT was an "E" ride!

DBSTrader2

I have a couple of those First-Day stamped $2 bills as well. PLUS I have FDC's with each state's flag, cancelled in each state's First-Day-Of-Issue location. Would have been a neat pair-up with a bill for each as well............ Neat display ChrisH821!!

ACop

@Hydrant said:

@ACop said:
Wild guess but it sounds like you might have a 2 dollar bill with a stamp on it.

Wild guess but it sounds like you might have read the first post of this thread. Especially the part about me finding a 2 dollar bill with a stamp on it.

Sounds like we have a consensus

ricko

@ChrisH821... Wow... That is an impressive collection... How long did it take to complete? I did not even know about these... was living out of the country for much of that time....Cheers, RickO

ChrisH821

@ricko said:
@ChrisH821... Wow... That is an impressive collection... How long did it take to complete? I did not even know about these... was living out of the country for much of that time....Cheers, RickO

I bought them all at once from a member here so I kind of cheated in that respect. They are all sequential so someone back in 1976 spent a lot of money to have a complete set that day.

ricko

@ChrisH821.... No... not cheating... some people by albums full of coins... Just another path to getting what you like. Some collectors enjoy a long, slow hunt to build a set.... some just want a set of nice coins/bills. Cheers, RickO

astrorat

I still have the 50 state set my Dad had cancelled at our local post office on the first day of issue. No gorgeous display like @ChrisH821, however.

jedm

@ms70 said:
Hard to see unless you enlarge it but it's also cancelled on the same date as yours. All the cool kids did it that day.

I'm not sure we were the "cool kids" (I myself had ten of them stamped and cancelled that day). Anyone have one with a Milford, Nebraska cancellation? I'm thinking we were the NERDS....

ms70

@jedm said:

@ms70 said:
Hard to see unless you enlarge it but it's also cancelled on the same date as yours. All the cool kids did it that day.

I'm not sure we were the "cool kids" (I myself had ten of them stamped and cancelled that day). Anyone have one with a Milford, Nebraska cancellation? I'm thinking we were the NERDS....

I was annoyed about having to buy a stamp and put it on the note. Why couldn't they just stamp the note?

coinkat

Anaheim? I remember driving to the Atwood post office thinking that no one else would to get one of these cancelled with an unusual postmark

airplanenut

@ms70 said:
Hard to see unless you enlarge it but it's also cancelled on the same date as yours. All the cool kids did it that day.

Neat! I grew up near Caldwell and had a bunch of friends who lived there.

coinkat

Forgot to mention the most significant part of this... April 13th (1743) was Jefferson's birthday

CoinHoarder

I remember reading somewhere that many of these first day stamped $2. Bills, were stamped after the first day of issue, using the first day of issue date.

Does anybody know if this is true?

BuffaloIronTail

@ms70 said:

@jedm said:

@ms70 said:
Hard to see unless you enlarge it but it's also cancelled on the same date as yours. All the cool kids did it that day.

I'm not sure we were the "cool kids" (I myself had ten of them stamped and cancelled that day). Anyone have one with a Milford, Nebraska cancellation? I'm thinking we were the NERDS....

I was annoyed about having to buy a stamp and put it on the note. Why couldn't they just stamp the note?

That would be "No Fair!"

The Postal Service had to get something out of the whole deal.

Pete