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by **krazy ace** » Aug 24th, '06, 13:09

sorry if this is a stupid question but where could I get $2 bills from. My cousin in america has never seen any and money exchange places in the u.k don't stock them.

Does anyone know where to get them from?

thanks

by **IAIN** » Aug 24th, '06, 13:24

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Sta ... ollar_bill

google>type $2 bill...

so im guessing they should be available somewhere...

by **katrielalex** » Aug 24th, '06, 13:24

If you ask at a US bank they may sell them although if they don't have them in stock you need to order a lot of them.

Kati

by **Tomo** » Aug 24th, '06, 13:38

krazy ace wrote:sorry if this is a stupid question but where could I get $2 bills from. My cousin in america has never seen any and money exchange places in the u.k don't stock them.

Does anyone know where to get them from?

thanks

No, but they only account for 1% of US paper currency, so it's not surprising your cousin hasn't seen one. I lived over there for a year and never saw one either.

by **katrielalex** » Aug 24th, '06, 13:40

Hmmm... 1% = 1/100 so you should see a $2 bill for every 99 $1 - then again, they do tend to be hoarded. We have one somewhere

Kati

by **trickyricky** » Aug 24th, '06, 14:10

Apparently, they're very rare. My girlfriend has only one and its in my hand as i type. I can try and see about getting a couple while im over here if you like?

by **Tomo** » Aug 24th, '06, 14:21

katrielalex wrote:Hmmm... 1% = 1/100 so you should see a $2 bill for every 99 $1 - then again, they do tend to be hoarded. We have one somewhere

Kati

The distribution of bills isn't even across denominations, so I'm not sure that holds, Kati.

by **azraelws6** » Aug 24th, '06, 15:50

As a neighbour of the US, I didn't even know there WAS a US 2-dollar bill!!

We had one but a while ago it was replaced by a 2-dollar coin.

causes you to have $15 of "pocket change"!

by **Dominick** » Aug 24th, '06, 16:08

I have two dollar bill around here somewhere...I've actually had a couple stolen from me...But where you could find one, I don't know.

by **trickyricky** » Aug 24th, '06, 16:11

My girlfriend works for a bank so i figured she'd be the best person to ask. And she doesnt know if they have any so shes getting back to me later! She is getting me some dollar and half dollar coins though to help with my coin stuff!

by **mccabe24** » Aug 25th, '06, 14:52

Canada used to use two dollar bills, but we don't anymore. You might want to try looking at some Canadian coin/money site. But I wouldn't recomend using two dollar bills. If people can't recognise it, they will think it is a trick bill :roll:

by **Tomo** » Aug 25th, '06, 15:00

Bring back the ten bob note!

Mind you, you try to tell kids today that before 1971 the UK used to have 12 pennies to a 5p and they look at you funny...