$10 Coin Shop Purchase
Coin_nut1977
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Other than the pristine condition of those bills, is there further significance to the two items?? Cheers, RickO
They're over half a century old but I'm not sure if that's enough to make them worth more than face value but they sure are in great condition.
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Nice and crisp looking!
I was 9 in 1963. My friend across the street told me to save dimes and quarters because they were not going to have silver anymore. I couldn’t save that much. Me and my poor friends saved “S” mint cents because in Illinois you seldom saw them not because we thought they were going up in value. At 9 years old you don’t think about increased value. The contest was who could find the most and what years. It seems like an eternity ago and a couple seconds ago all at the same time.
Maybe this is the significance.
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Palo Alto, Calif
cool,
bob
What's the point of Palo Alto?
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April 13, 1976 is the First Day Of Issue for the Bicentennial $2 notes. They're common but cool to have in a collection.
Always nice to see a CU note, the margins are off though. Collect what you like. Good luck. Peace Roy
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Roger that. Thanks @MWallace 👍🏻
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Yes. Pretty cool indeed!
Coincidentally, I was going through my old currency and have 10 similarly Unc $2 notes, First day of issue, with the Stare stamps, from 1976, all sequential serial numbers too. Very much
Iike your note featured here. I wasn’t the original collector, but it must have been a thing at the time.
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Yes, those 1st day $2 bills are very common. They are generally $3 items or so. People will even collect all the states and things like that.
They are cool alright. Here's a complete 50 state set that I made into a presentation.
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A very nice display @ChrisH821! 👍🏻
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I have seen hundreds of these over the years, as most dealers have. However, I have yet to figure out why this was done. I can almost understand the state capitals, maybe? Who knows!!
bob
PS: I was born in Palo Alto at Stanford Hospital.
Very poor centering on the $1. Virtually no interest in the the postmarked $2 bills. Sadly, I think you overpaid.
Oh okay, thanks. 👍🏻
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As mentioned above in this thread, these were created to mark the issuance of the new $2 bill. You went to the bank on 4/13/76 and got the $2 bill, then you went to the Post Office to add a stamp and have it postmarked. I got one from my hometown.
People were doing them all over the country. The retailers probably did stick to major cities or capitals. But Joe Average just went to the bank and went to the post office and made their own. Local coin and stamp clubs also made them.
I wonder if you could get people to do something similar now.
People were doing them all over the country. The retailers probably did stick to major cities or capitals. But Joe Average just went to the bank and went to the post office and made their own. Local coin and stamp clubs also made them.
I wonder if you could get people to do something similar now.
"It seems like an eternity ago and a couple seconds ago all at the same time."
Being older than you I know EXACTLY what you mean.
I did several of the $2 notes at the Farmington, Mi post office. I held on to them for several years and then ended up just spending them. Collector interest never amounted to much after the first few months.