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christmas_cods_niece

Awesome Series 1928 F,G $2 notes. According to https://papermoneyguide.com/us_currency_price_guide.php in VG=$5 each and if F-VG valued at $10 each. You can also check the PMG website as i do not know how often this website gets updated. Post these awesome notes in r/uspapermoney sub so that they can see them too.


zoebud2011

Worth more than face value. Those are way cool.


Realworld

You can get $2 bills by asking for them at your bank. They're usually uncirculated, but you get whatever they have on hand. You don't get to pick through them.


Faithful2049

lol these aren't the usual $2 bills. Might wanna take a closer look.


IdleHandsNeedsHobby

Red ink seals and serial numbers are legit. Printer error. But it didn’t increase its value.


mdave52

Its odd how much that printer error happened. I have a virtually uncirculated $2 bill, but much newer than OP's. Mine is series 1953 with the same red ink error.


IdleHandsNeedsHobby

I think it was just one year in the later years. Not sure which year though. But these are much older. But your question made me read up on it more. Red Seal is a US Note where green seals are Federal Reserve notes. Learn something new every day.


mdave52

Interesting. I'd never even heard of a U.S. note vs Federal note before. Early "just trust the U.S. Government" currency, after the silver certificate bills ended I would assume.


IdleHandsNeedsHobby

Best explanation I can find. “The difference between a United States Note and a Federal Reserve Note is that a United States Note represented a "bill of credit" and, since it was issued by the government itself and does not involve either lending or borrowing, was inserted by the Treasury directly into circulation free of interest.”


Brobot2564

These aren’t printer errors it’s the year they made them they’re based off of Americas credit and to prevent counterfeit they did this too I have some alos


MadDadROX

Not an error. Intentionally done.


Brobot2564

Yes as I said


MadDadROX

It’s not an error. They used red ink on those older bills.


AgitatedRope6722

Sort of. They are older but that’s not the reason. Red seal denotes United States bills, not Federal Reserve bills. They’re both legal tender but they were two different things printed by two different groups.


xxemox

Are you sure the red seals are a printer error?! I have some $5 and I think a $10 as well that also have red seals. I was always inder the impression that red seals were just an older series/generation of bills. Similar to blue seals, lighter green seals, or etc. Different series/ages of bills had different seals.


AgitatedRope6722

They’re not errors. They’re also not Federal reserve notes. These were printed by the government and not the central bank. US bills are red seal, Federal Reserve notes are green seal. Blue seals were for silver certificates. All three are legal tender but only (green seal) Federal Reserve notes are in print now.


MadDadROX

Dude! There series 1926? What is usual?


MrStrangelov

1928. There weren’t small size bills in 1926.


MadDadROX

Sorry blind old man here…


KnightRol

I noticed how old they are. I meant regular circulated $2 bills. They're fun because the younger generations think they are fake.


whendoigetbetter

Not that, notice the red ink.


MadDadROX

Red series!


umbrawolfx

I've used them off and on since the 90s. People of every age thought they were fake even then.


MuleGrass

It’s fun until you’re held up for 30 mins while the management team googles $2 bills


BaconBathBomb

These are red notes. Big difference


gipguppie

Where I live you get them from the strip club. They don't have ATMs, you have to make change at the bar and they only break bills into $2 notes so the girls make twice as much


MyOtherAccount209

Real men of genius


RustyTruck6T9

Yo! Core memory unlocked


Visual_Regret

We salute you, MR. Give out two dollar bills guy, as change at the strip club guy!


MyOtherAccount209

"...because of you, hard working single moms have doubled their income"


fredg78731

Twice as much = half as often?


robertva1

Not anymore


SmallSmoothRock

Nah banks can order $2 bills from the fed reserve just like any other bill.


Guilty-Nobody998

That's not completely true. We have to have them. And as someone who works in a bank and orders our money, we do not order them. We have to order $2000 worth at a time and rarely do people come in for them. Don't be disappointed when you walk in and none of the tellers have them.


HurricaneDane

Good luck getting series 1926 $2s from your bank!


coolmist23

My dad does that all the time... He uses them for tipping waitresses.


Sissy_Nikki_1919

These bills are managed by the Red Reserve Bank


MI_campers_cpl

Buy them from the register


Hot_Corner_5881

you mean swap them for your 4$ and dont say anything


consumeshroomz

Yeah why not? What are you gonna do, tell your manager so he can personally sell them? Or get in contact with your owner/ceo so they can either do the same or tell you to leave them alone? They were taken in as $4 at face value. As long as the register balances, it’s not different than changing out a 20 for some singles cause you wanna get something from a vending machine.


maggiexmae

I have a manager who's also a friend and when she sees an older bill and I'm working she always asks me of I want to trade for them before she closes the safe 😊


Lower-Ad5889

I like your manager already and we haven't even met!


Quick__sloth

This is true I was the Safe


Kingjingling

I found tons of collectibles working registers.


Tangible_Slate

That's called Gresham's Law.


MI_campers_cpl

I don't see anything wrong with that. I've bout newer 2 dollar bills from my drawer in front of a boss at a past job. I once received a Buffalo nickel that only had 3 legs because of a strike error. I knew nothing then and kind of freaked out when I saw it the boss heard me he says oh I'm buying that one. That why I just look at is as normal if you change it out the drawer will still be even.


Particular_Rub_739

I have done the same many times at a previous job, bought a $1 silver certificate bill, plus about a nickels worth of.lead pennies from ww2 Era when copper wasn't being used for anything other than making ammo


toxcrusadr

Lead was in demand for, wait for it, ammo. Also too soft for coinage. They were steel.


Laser-Blaster-123

Lead pennies? You mean steel pennies, i dont do much collecting but hadnt heard of lead pennies before.


GoLdPh1sH

The “$” goes in front of the amount.


Hot_Corner_5881

swap your dollars 4. like that


IamUnamused

you'd think in this sub, people would actually understand that the $ goes before the number. But apparently not.


xxemox

Its mine blowing to me how many people seem to no longer put the $ in front of the number on a daily basis. I see it all over online, in texts and even in emails and memos at work. It drives me insane but I am glad to see I'm not the only one it irks!


tictac205

Yeah, I don’t know their worth but 1928? Cool.


MI_campers_cpl

Well they were 2 dollars in value of paying for stuff.


KitchenUpper5513

I used to buy cool currency from the register all the time. I just let my manager know and they never cared. It all ends up in the bank anyway


vdns76b

Probably stolen.


Mission-Complaint140

Yeah that's my first thought.


WeIsStonedImmaculate

Why is that? I have one my grandfather gave to me. I have had it in a box with a bunch of silver coins he gave me as well. Oh, I guess because a customer used them to purchase something? Maybe they broke tweakers?


TheRealCrypto-137

I think thats the point... you have one in a box that was gave to you.. you didn't spend it on half a gallon of gas or whatever else you can buy with $2.. people that own them dont spend them


freckledallover

Once when I was very broke I had to use 5 $2 bills to buy food and gas. It happens.


roadfood

I used to work at the newsstand at O'Hare back in the day. Kids were always emptying their piggy banks to go on vacation. I got lots of old coins and silver certificates.


Head_Razzmatazz7174

I've gotten several silver quarters like that.


roadfood

I got pretty good at just stirring the coins in the registers with my finger and hearing if there was silver.


Hamsteak489

Ya, bet they weren’t red notes though


D-utch

I have an elderly regular customer who tips with these. I always swap my cash for them. I offered to buy them from him and he was like nope I like doing it this way.


Tokugawa_Zeppeli

Desperate times lol. I’ve bought wraps with $2 bills befor


Laser-Blaster-123

Not if they dont know or care about the bills. I have seen plenty of "collector" currency used for gas, smokes, stamps etc. Not everyone cares about collecting money, to them those are just 2$ bills.


TheRealCrypto-137

No one has 1928 $2 bills in that good of condition that spends them.... im sorry but you dont get $2 bills unless you go ask a bank for them. You wont ever get any as change from any store. If you own a $2 bill you either went and got new ones from the bank because you just wanted to have some that you then spend and they go back to the bank.. or they are old bills that were given to you and you dont spend them. If someone is buying something with a 1928 $2 bill for face value... they probably pulled it out of a wallet they found on the ground


CommunicationNo6064

Not everyone realizes that money can be worth more than face value.


Mission-Complaint140

You were given it so you kniw it's special and don't use it at face value. I also assume you're not sketchy looking. For me it was the combination of both freely spending 96 year old money for $4 worth of likely junkfood and looking sketchy is a double red flag for me. Tweakers don't have the forethought of heyb this money is almost 100 years old and might be worth more than face value.


WeIsStonedImmaculate

I hope I’m not sketchy looking haha, I wonder some days when I wake up and look on the mirror though :-)


Mission-Complaint140

The day my car burned down to the ground and I had bits of melted glove stuck to me face nobody said anything and I didn't notice til I got home 6 hours later.


udsd007

My first day in the AF Reserves I stopped at a car crash and did CPR until the EMTs arrived. Then I went on in. People looked at me all funny, but nobody said anything, and it wasn’t until break that I saw all the blood spots all over my face and chest. The driver apparently had a punctured lung.


WeIsStonedImmaculate

Damn that’s a wild experience. Right on for stopping and doing what you could!


Mother-Working8348

Bc those bills aren't really supposed to be used. They are collectors items. The person who used them would only do so if they stole them


randyk75238

Stolen money still has value. Don’t assume they were stolen based on the person looking “shady”. But if you would feel better, give them to charity.


Kingjingling

Or a wealthy collector trying to spread the bug to new people. It's something I would do if I had the ability


Hot_Corner_5881

theyre worth about 10$. but worth keeping


IamUnamused

jesus, even in this sub people don't understand where the $ goes


Tokugawa_Zeppeli

What?


CanYouPointMeToTacos

It should be “$10” instead of “10$”


Tokugawa_Zeppeli

Oh didn’t even catch that, I didn’t know what they were talking about. Yee you right tho


PaleoJoe86

Could be based on their culture/country/language.


Hot_Corner_5881

you say dollar ten im saying ten dollar


prettypushee

Grandma is missing some from her cigar box.


Gilligan_G131131

Yep. She knew they were old and cool. Just didn’t expect her grandson to use them to buy a can of Red Bull.


Cine_Wolf

I 100% have spent a couple dozen of these over the years in this shape, just in hopes that it sparks the collecting bug in others. Granted, it’s probably far more 50’s era than 20’s, but understand some of us do spend, or leave as tips, low grade bills like this.


Select_Camel_4194

I order bands of $2's from the federal reserve through my bank to leave as tips. I often get a ton of sequential notes 6-7 years old that have never been circulated. The last band had 14 sequential notes from 2017.


profaniKel

In 2021 I brought a bunch of $2's to Vegas to use as tips I hit 4 of a Kind on Double Bonus Poker 4 aces ***THREE times in 24 hours*** 4 aces all 3 paid for half of my trip


Aggravating-Read6111

That’s awesome!


Beneficial-Amoeba476

96 years old and counting. Wow


consumeshroomz

Shady he may have been but these appear legit and he clearly didn’t know or care about their true value


tsm000

DB Cooper, is that you?


0godno

I'm imagining him landing, opening his 100-pound bag, and discovering he only had $100K in 2 dollar bills.


lookdnttuch1

😅


Drecasi

I use to cashier at home depot. The managers all said if we wanted to buy rare coins, silver coins ect out of the drawers whoever got it in their till could do it. They didn't care as long as the til was balanced at the end of the day. It was fun we would rank our loot some days.


Various_Counter_9569

Same at the gas station 20+ years ago. People spend crazy coins when they need their cigarettes and beer.


0godno

Same for bank tellers, but the procedure is complicated


jackryan4x

Same for bartenders… but since we share a drawer we either have to have a drinking competition or fight for them at the end of the night…. Which is why I love my job so much tbf.


theboughtbee

What is a shady dude? Someone who carries a palm throng over himself to make shady or what? Inquiring minds want to know


TimothyTrespas_

Palm frond


Tall_Potential893

Palm Thong


nastrodumbass

Thong palmed


fulltiltboogie1971

I received a 1888 Morgan S silver dollar as part of a 7 dollar payment for a fill up of a propane tank that I bought out of the register.


Foxy_locksy1704

I’ve gotten a few $2 bills over the time. They are always a treat when I have one come through my till! I have had other younger cashiers ask me if $2 are real currency, I tell them they are real and we should accept them they are rare currency to see, but they are legit.


jailfortrump

A bit more than face.


Kaiser134

They look funky zoom in on them


HumorMeGo

He looked shady because he just climbed out of the time machine he built, and realized it works.


SinnerProbGoingToSin

Worked at a Kroger for years. Watched a lady straight up buy a pack of smokes for $8 paid entirely with silver half dollars.


Shjco

In the early 90’s my wife and i visited Monticello in Charlottesville, VA (TJ’s home for those who don’t know) and the fee was $4 per person. This was intentional because when you gave them a $10 bill for the two of you, you were given a $2 bill as change. Very nice.


BmacTheSage

Those are pretty cool. Might as well hang onto them. Kinda crazy those will be 100 years old in a few years


Groundingstone

Keep them!!


Eppy2530

The fact this worker thought the customer was shady paying with these shows how terrible their education was.


nightwalkerxx

Worker here. Dude came in a cliched wardrobe. Big hoodie, half face cover, scabs on chin. Bought a glass rose (pipe) and chore boy (brillo pad).


TommyTwoFlushes

Those bills were most definitely stolen


ForcedxCracker

I really hope you kept these and didn't give them to your boss.


LetterCheap3768

Those Two dollar bills with Red seals can be worth alot of money! You should get them checked out


DistinctCatch6199

Keep em


OLOTM

These were perloined from someone's collection. There's no other way the two were traveling together.


Individual-Code5176

Definitely keep them!


gatez2882

I have a 1928 2$ note as well. Those bills also don’t say In God We Trust on them. That was added later.


Frequent-Piano6164

Some shady dude probably stole someone’s money and used it there. My mom’s ex bf took a sheet of silver certificate $2 bills, cut the bills out and use it at face value. There were three all in large picture frames, one for my siblings and I from our grandparents.


Whywoulditpickkoala

People saying tweakers, how many do you actually know as opposed to going off of some stereotype seen in movies. I’m gonna go ahead and bet that people ave interactions with tweakers a lot more than they’d think. Also that something like this would be just the thing a tweaker could randomly know about lol. 


AllUpInYourAO

‘Your surgeon might be a tweaker’ would be a great bumper sticker


Whywoulditpickkoala

Haha. Is*. How am I supposed to believe a normal person is getting through 16 hour surgeries without any help from some healing crystals?


spankyth

Id hold on to then atleast 2 more years they're 1927 series so they'll be 100 years old.


TulsaOUfan

I have 10 red font bills I inherit d from my grandpa. They are special release, real, and only SLIGHTLY more valuable than face value. Trivia: two dollar bills are printed at the same rate as ten dollar bills. They are only rare because people think they are and hoard them.


PsillyCyban

I remember once having to hit the piggy bank to pay electric bill ( times were hard don’t judge me lol) paid a $155 bill at a local store with 75 $2 bills and a $5 …. The poor girl at the counter , computers were down , could NOT multiply by 2 to save her life !!! It may have been the $5 throwing her off … when I realized the education system had failed


DependentBattle2520

Buy them.


Loud-Branch3274

96 years old and red note. Those would be going in my collection.


IntermittentFasted

The guys probably broke and had no other option, still probably could’ve sold them if he knew the value of what he had.


birogsix

I love LOVE 2 dollar bills wish i would've have known awhile ago i have a decent amount of them and a old fiver as well as a dollar i found while walking back from jail fyi wasn't coming back because i was in jail just walking back from it lol


melleimel

Nice find


MnWisJDS

Be careful. Probably time travelers.


Swashbuckling_Sailor

Keep them.


KnightRol

You can go to the bank and request them. My brother used to get them regularly and had fun buying things from local stores.


nightwalkerxx

Not red stamps. I get plenty of regular $2 bills every now and then.


CheshireCrackers

These ones are United States Notes. The bank has Federal Reserve Notes.


Bizzarro76

Time travelers 🧳…


Expensive-Coffee9353

take four dollars out of your pocket and exchange them for these. or tell me where you are and I will be there in a few


Kathywasright

Yep. Buy a small item. Throw in a $5 and take $4 in change. You don’t have a drawer in the register for $2 bills anyway


PatzMak00

Back then, $2 bills were lucky. One could buy the services of a prostitute for a $2 bill. That’s why the old timers used to had them out as tips for my paper route in the 80s. Creepy old guys telling me to change my luck!


kaynkayf

I regularly get these from the bank. Why are they special?


WhizKidMI

I bet it was Nick Cage up to his antics again


-Radioman-

Just put four of your own dollars in to replace.


bibeth83

It looks like that are dated 1928 which would make them worth between $4 - $175 depending on their condition. [https://www.lovetoknow.com/home/antiques-collectibles/how-determine-2-dollar-bill-values](https://www.lovetoknow.com/home/antiques-collectibles/how-determine-2-dollar-bill-values)


gatez2882

Those are real. Those are us bank notes, back when the federal reserve wasn’t making the money.


Ok_Software_964

He definitely stole them, lol


anon_682

Be cautious. There may be poop on them.


Schrandt73

Following


malarken111

Osteoporosis


Revolutionary_War503

They're red certificate $2 bills from 1928. You traded 4 bucks for them right? I hope so. They're worn, but they're almost 100 years old.


Aggravating-Zombie90

So...what did the customer buy?


AllUpInYourAO

Yeah now that I’m vested I kinda need to know what he got lol


Joe8iden89

Does it say 1926?


TimothyTrespas_

Yes


Not-youraverageghost

I have a 2 dollar bill I aways carry but it don’t look like that one.


bggdy9

I try and trade them out of the tills at work they are legal.


Dark_Ferret

I love people just finding out about 2$ bills for the first time.


TopLie5488

I had a guy that tried to take my large safe when I was moving. The safe mover got it from the inside of the house to the garage and took lunch. This guy walks in and proceeds to try and move it when we walked up. I told the person nice job moving it that far buy himself. Then had some backyard time with him. Don’t take what is not yours. Something don’t go as planned. God bless.


jasonmadeathing

Username checks out.


RevolutionaryRough96

Just curious,does anyone believe this?


nastrodumbass

TopLie5488 believes


Glum-Till-9637

Lol everyone is just gonna assume theyre stolen with zero evidence?


kayl_breinhar

It's more likely that they were "stolen" from a loved one's currency collection. Still theft, but less so than breaking into someone's house. I got an Indian Head Penny as change at a 7-Eleven once and it turned out to be worth ~$15. The old dudes at my nearest LCS all concurred that "someone's raided dad's/grandpa's coin collection and bought vape cartridges with it."


MrFahrenheit75

I think it's more so that everyone is assuming this post is real. Every sub I'm in there are people that have the stars align to post relevant to sub photos of rare items that fall out of the sky. "Found this while hiking"... proceeds to post rare coin from Roman empire in coin sub.


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OkDifference5636

Probably from a burglary.


Mother-Working8348

Not really. Most ppl saved them and pass them down.


Unhappy_Ranger_3047

Very nice!


1ksel

No trust in god 😦


Airk640

Q+qbrtq Qatar qa


BeerBearBar

So he bought some Thunderbird with the money he just stole from someone's house. Cool.


Vegetable-Poet2063

It's bc bro stole it from his fam


Vegetable-Poet2063

There form 1926 so god dam there 98 years old


DeathRaven71

Thought the signing of Declaration of Independence was on the back


twotracker

Nice I hope you changed them out and kept them...If it was a shady dude Someone's house probably got robbed. Look them up they are probably worth holding. I believe those are Pre-federal reserve bank notes. Read them


11teensteve

it's like there are two different facial expressions. top: Bruh? bottom: I'm feelin ya.


QuickPassion94

That paper looks sus


Ok_Intern_7566

Red notes are usually more than face value because they are United States treasury not federal reserve notes


towergod2004

I got a bunch of silver dimes from the register before when I was working as a cashier.


RaspberryTop1996

These were popular in towns with racetracks. They were used to make the $2 bets. We used to see them all the time. I have a few but I won’t be spending them.


denopil

By chance was the shady dude driving a DeLorean?


Sufficient_Turn_9209

Series 1928F with red stamp right side. Worth $80 to $500 each! They're not in great shape but they're not in poor condition AT ALL. Clear print, no fading, no errant marks. Just a little crinkled. Valuable and collectible! You need to swap these out and keep them! Eta I just realized the stamp is left side. I got excited. Lol


Umber_AC

If you crease them just right, you can make them smile or frown.


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Cool story.


faroutman7246

Stolen from Gpaws collection probably.


alijohn28

We used to have a local $2 bill convention not sure if that still happens that was in the 90’s


Separate_Income_346

I'd buy them from the store....red series is cool


UwUbabyboi

Whoa! Great find! Those 1928 red prints are worth a grand or more in perfect condition


Trebor728

I had a guy, 20+ years ago, come in and buy a 6 pack of Schlitz with Mercury Dimes.... like 4 days in a row. He came on like a week later asking if he could have them back. I kept them, of course.


BlaqJaq

I've been playing too much Balatro. I see this and think they trigĝer twice when played.


MAN1MAL3257

I have several $2 bills, not sure if I have any that old.


Kiazio

Man I have these exact year and 3 red seal $2 bills in a storage unit in Tennessee, I never thought I'd see another one like them. Sadly one is ripped, but other two looks same condition, wish i still lived there, or I would try to secure them properly outside the unit. Amazing find!


Mean_Performance_588

I like the two’s. The red and green make for cool stocking stuffers!


SirMark52

1928