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The $2 bill is a very rare Federal Reserve Note that is worth two dollars, or 200 cents. On July 10, 1929, the $2 bill started off always as a United States Note with a red Treasury seal. It remained that way until 1965, when the red seal notes were discontinued, along with the $2 bill as a whole for almost 11 years. It was reintroduced as a Federal Reserve Note on April 13, 1976 as a Series 1976, in honor of the Declaration of Independence's 200th anniversary.

This rarely seen bill features a portrait of Thomas Jefferson on the front, and the signing of the Declaration of Independence on the back.

Pre-Series 1976

Type of currency Series year First delivery date Last delivery date
United States Note 1928 April 24, 1929 N/A
1928A July 2, 1929 N/A
1928B April 20, 1932 N/A
1928C June 15, 1934 N/A
1928D N/A (probably 1938) N/A
1928E February 25, 1946 N/A
1928F September 25, 1946 N/A
1928G January 16, 1950 May 6, 1953
1953 May 2, 1953 August 20, 1957
1953A February 19, 1958 September 8, 1960
1953B September 21, 1961 July 9, 1962
1953C October 15, 1963 November 7, 1963
1963 March 11, 1964 June 3, 1964
1963A July 29, 1965 July 29, 1965

A total of 430,760,000 $2 bills were printed in the original 1928 design, and only 98,480,000 were printed from Series 1953 to 1963A.

Series 1976

$2-B (1976) $2-C (1976) $2-E (1976) $2-I (1976) $2-J (1976) $2-K (1976)

Federal Reserve Bank Production span
Boston March 1976 – October 1976
New York February 1976 – October 1976
Philadelphia February 1976 – November 1976
Cleveland January 1976 – September 1976
Richmond December 1975 – January 1977
Atlanta January 1976 – December 1976
Chicago January 1976 – August 1979
St. Louis February 1976 – January 1977
Minneapolis February 1976 – September 1979
Kansas City February 1976 – October 1976
Dallas March 1976 – November 1976
San Francisco December 1975 – September 1979
Trivia
  • Signatures: Francine I. Neff and William E. Simon
  • First time the $2 bill became a Federal Reserve Note, and the last time this denomination was printed at the main facility in D.C.
  • Approximately 2.4 million new $2 bills were released to circulation every month since 1976 for 20 years.
  • Uncut sheets of $2 bills first appeared on BEP reports in late 1985.
  • Until 1996 (2000 for all districts), these were the only newest $2 bills ever known to exist.
  • As of 2020, at least 306,800,000 $2 bills are still Series 1976 or older notes.

Series 1995

$2-F (1996)

Trivia
  • Signatures: Mary Ellen Withrow and Robert E. Rubin
  • Production span: August 1996 – October 1996
  • First $2 bills printed at the Western Currency Facility, which now prints all the $2 bills.
  • Those printed in 1996 were only shipped to the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, and were also therefore the only available notes with serial numbers ending with "B".
  • These $2 bills were the newest to ever exist until 2003 (2006 for more than half of all 12 districts), and are all still in circulation as of 2019.

Millennium notes

$2-A (2000) $2-B (2000) $2-E (2000) $2-I (2000) $2-J (2000) $2-K (2000)

Trivia
  • Signatures: Mary Ellen Withrow and Robert E. Rubin
  • Production span: Unknown, probably in late 1999 or early 2000
  • To celebrate the new millennium in 2000, a unique series of 9,999 Star Notes was printed for each of all 12 Federal Reserve Districts. This marked the first time in history when the Western Currency Facility ever printed $2 bills to all districts nationwide.

Series 2003

$2-I (2003)

Trivia
  • Signatures: Rosario Marin and John W. Snow
  • Production span: August 2003 – November 2005
  • Regular notes only shipped to the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, and the only available notes with serial numbers ending with "B".
  • Uncut sheets with high serial numbers were printed for the Federal Reserve Districts of Boston, Atlanta, Chicago, Minneapolis, and Dallas. Production totaled more than 3.3 million notes. The Dallas notes were printed sometime in 2004, the New York notes in December 2004, the Atlanta notes in August 2005, and the Chicago notes in November 2005.
  • These $2 bills were the newest to ever exist until 2006, and are still in circulation as of 2019.

Uncut sheets

$2-A (2005) $2-C (2004) $2-D (2004) $2-E (2005) $2-F (2005) $2-J (2004) $2-K (2005)

Sometime during the mid-2000s, 500 uncut sheets containing Series 2003 star notes were printed for all 12 Federal Reserve Districts.

Series 2003A

$2-A (2006) $2-B (2006) $2-C (2006) $2-D (2006) $2-F (2006) $2-G (2006) $2-H (2006) $2-I (2006) $2-J (2006) $2-K (2006) $2-L (2006)

Federal Reserve Bank Production span
Boston August 2006
New York August and September 2006
Philadelphia August 2006
Cleveland September 2006
Richmond September 2006
Atlanta July and August 2006
Chicago September 2006
St. Louis September 2006
Minneapolis September 2006
Kansas City September 2006
Dallas September 2006
San Francisco September 2006
Trivia
  • Signatures: Anna Escobedo Cabral and John W. Snow
  • Release dates: September 6, 2006 – June 26, 2014
  • From December 2007 through October 2008, $2 bills with unique serial numbers in which the first four digits represented the year 2008 and they always ended with "D" began production. This process continued on through May 2014.
  • Also beginning production in December 2007 was the "Lucky Money 888 Set", which was exclusive to the District of St. Louis and always began with the numbers "888". Notes ending with "E" were printed in December 2008.
  • These $2 bills were the newest to ever exist until 2012, and some were released to circulation in 2009.
  • Has been in circulation for almost 13 years.

Series 2009

$2-A (2012) $2-B (2012) $2-D (2012) $2-F (2012) $2-G (2012) $2-K (2012) $2-L (2012)

Federal Reserve Bank Production span
Boston June 2012
New York April 2012 – June 2012
Philadelphia N/A
Cleveland June 2012
Richmond N/A
Atlanta July 2012
Chicago July 2012
St. Louis N/A
Minneapolis N/A
Kansas City N/A
Dallas February 2012 – July 2012
San Francisco July 2012 – August 2012
Trivia
  • Signatures: Rosa Gumataotao Rios and Timothy F. Geithner
  • Release date: November 5, 2012 – June 25, 2017
  • Has been in circulation for more than seven years.
  • In any districts where no Series 2009 $2 bills were delivered to, their Series 2003A counterparts were still current until 2015 or 2016.
  • Exclusive to the Federal Reserve District of Dallas were $2 bills with unique serial numbers beginning with the years 2016 and 2017. The first notes were printed in June 2016.

Series 2013

$2-A (2016) $2-B (2015) $2-C (2016) $2-E (2016) $2-F (2014) $2-G (2016) $2-I (2016) $2-J (2016) $2-K (2015) 2dollar back

Federal Reserve Bank Production span
Boston June 2016
New York January 2015 – June 2016
Philadelphia June 2016 – August 2019
Cleveland June 2016
Richmond October 2015 – December 2015
Atlanta November 2013 – November 2018
Chicago July 2016
St. Louis July 2016
Minneapolis July 2016
Kansas City July 2016
Dallas June 2014 – October 2015
San Francisco January 2016 – November 2018
Trivia
  • Signatures: Rosa Gumataotao Rios and Jack Lew
  • Release dates: January 3, 2014 – August 16, 2016 and December 19, 2018
  • Virtually no $2 bills would have been destroyed if we reach 1.3 billion in circulation by the end of 2018 as long as no new ones are being printed this year, since there were 700 million in existence before 2006.
  • The last Series 2013 $2 bills were printed in August 2019, before the denomination transitioned to Series 2017A.
  • As of late 2019, the Federal Reserve Banks of Atlanta and San Francisco still have had printed $2 bills in 2018 at the latest.

Series 2017A

$2-A (2020) $2-B (2021) $2-C (2019) $2-D (2019) $2-G (2019) $2-I (2019) $2-J (2019)

Series 2017A notes began production in 2019.

As of 2020, no more than 1,043,200,000 $2 bills are Series 1995–2017A notes.

2019 totals

Federal Reserve Bank Total printed
(1976) 		Total printed
(1996-present)
Boston 29,440,000 38,400,000
(Series 2003A–2017A)
New York 67,200,000 140,800,000
(Series 2003A–2017A)
Philadelphia 33,280,000 25,600,000
(Series 2003A–2017A)
Cleveland 31,360,000 44,800,000
(Series 2003A–2017A)
Richmond 56,960,000 44,800,000
(Series 2003A–2017A)
Atlanta 60,800,000 230,400,000
(Series 1995–2013)
Chicago 84,480,000 64,000,000
(Series 2003A–2017A)
St. Louis 39,040,000 19,200,000
(Series 2003A–2017A)
Minneapolis 23,680,000 140,800,000
(Series 2003–2017A)
Kansas City 24,960,000 25,600,000
(Series 2003A–2017A)
Dallas 41,600,000 76,800,000
(Series 2003A–2017A)
San Francisco 82,560,000 192,000,000
(Series 2003A–2013)

Foreign counterparts

2000 won note 2000 won note (back)

In 2017, a very rarely circulated 2,000 won note began production in South Korea.

$2 equals 2 2/3 Canadian dollars, 37 Mexican pesos, 10 Brazilian real, 2,500 South Korean won, or 250 Japanese yen.

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