January 1Jan 1 Popular Post On 12/11/2025 at 4:53 PM, HARO50 said: BTW, do you still have those in America? We got a lotta 2 dollar bills walking around here in Kalifornia.
January 1Jan 1 Popular Post 34 minutes ago, John Morris said: We got a lotta 2 dollar bills walking around here in Kalifornia. Sorry, but I can't comment on that. The guy who owns the site might ban me for posting political content! Edited January 1Jan 1 by HARO50
January 1Jan 1 Popular Post 1 hour ago, John Morris said: We got a lotta 2 dollar bills walking around here in Kalifornia. I started to respond and then thought better....
January 2Jan 2 4 hours ago, lew said: I started to respond and then thought better.... Yeah.... I had to think that one over REAL well!
January 2Jan 2 Popular Post 9 hours ago, Gerald said: I thought it was a three dollar bill See... I knew you were braver than me
January 2Jan 2 9 hours ago, Gerald said: I thought it was a three dollar bill Up here it was. The expression was "As queer as a three-dollar bill" We actually had two-dollar bills (Now replaced by "twonies".) IIRC, there never was a U.S. two-dollar bill. Correct me if I'm wrong.
January 2Jan 2 9 minutes ago, HARO50 said: there never was a U.S. two-dollar bill. Actually there was, I have several. My first one was given to me by my grandfather. He said they were often found at the racetrack- $2 bets.
January 2Jan 2 Popular Post Yep. 2 dollar bills were common for several years. We also had the two dollar silver certificate. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_two-dollar_bill
January 3Jan 3 Popular Post 9 hours ago, John Morris said: Yep. 2 dollar bills were common for several years. We also had the two dollar silver certificate I have a few of each stashed away. It still is active, valid currency although printed in much lower volumes than other denominations. BTW, in an effort to get this thread back on track, my $2 bills are crisp.😉 Edited January 3Jan 3 by Grandpadave52
January 3Jan 3 Popular Post New ones are available at the bank; I get 25 every Christmas and pass them out to the kids. Now that I think of it, I've been doing this for over 40 years my oldest is 44.
January 3Jan 3 Popular Post On 1/1/2026 at 2:54 PM, HARO50 said: Sorry, but I can't comment on that. The guy who owns the site might ban me for posting political content! Yes, I'm likewise not replying
January 3Jan 3 18 hours ago, Grandpadave52 said: I have a few of each stashed away. It still is active, valid currency although printed in much lower volumes than other denominations. BTW, in an effort to get this thread back on track, my $2 bills are crisp.😉 Don't try to use these at Wal*mart or McDonalds or the clerks will accuse you of counterfeiting.
January 4Jan 4 Popular Post Yes I have some silver certificate $2 bills. I think they stopped making the 2s for a while but brought them back. Kind of a novelty as the kids like them and makes a cool gift.
January 5Jan 5 Popular Post On 12/12/2025 at 9:52 AM, HARO50 said: We replaced our dollar bills with the "Loonie" about 25 years ago, and we did away with the penny entirely. So now that y'all copied us on the penny thing, it probably won't be much longer before George Washington is replaced with a coin. "Loonie" is already taken.... guess you'll have to call it the "Loco" Or maybe the "George". Loonies, and Twonies, much better country to go metal detecting in!
January 21Jan 21 Somewhere I have a pair of consecutive $2 bills that my sister gave me. She got them at the gift shop of Monticello sometime in the 1990's. I always intended to frame them but have never gotten around to it. As to $1 coins, I think the gold color ones really would have taken off if so many people weren't migrating to electronic payment around the same time. Or if the powers that be had pushed a little harder when they came out and got them well established quickly. I remember the 1 and 2 Euro coins being very convenient when I visited in 2022. But really it doesn't matter much - except putting some truth in my dad's old saying "A day late and a dollar short" On 1/3/2026 at 1:13 PM, kmealy said: Don't try to use these at Wal*mart or McDonalds or the clerks will accuse you of counterfeiting. That reminds me of being in a McDonalds in Grants NM around 2007 or so. When paying I did my frequent thing of adding extra change over the dollar amount so that the returned change would come out as an even coin - I think it was + $0.25 that time. Really confused the poor kid at the register, who had apparently never seen anyone do that before! I think that was the one time I just said nevermind and took the assorted nickles and pennies the register told the kid to give me. Edited January 21Jan 21 by JWD
January 21Jan 21 13 minutes ago, MrRick said: "Why do we call it 'turn off' a light?" ( duh ) here we say “outen the light “
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