“Change, we can really believe in!”

I’m not a currency guy, but if you go to the Coin World website, you can find information & pricing. (I tagged that silver-certificate in the article as low-value ‘cuz it looked torn/ripped, better quality specimens— easily $35-50+)

http://www.Coinworld.com

For huge amounts of pricing information on American coins:
http://www.pcgs.com
( One of the top 3rd-Party Grading Services.)

Haven’t found anything good in circulation for maybe 10 years, but used to find Wheat Cents & the occasional silver dime or quarter fairly often.
–Automated counting machines at Banks (& the Coinstar folks) filter out and keep any silver-coinage they encounter.
The average $1 Bill, has a life-expectancy of something like 18-24 months. Banks snag worn-out Notes & get replacements from the Fed Reserve. (They shred & burn old currency.)
Total tangent– Bureau of Engraving & Printing, prints paper-money & stamps, The US Mint, mints coinage.

BTW: I found a “Wheat Back” penny just last week. It is 1958, but I am keeping it with the rest of my 1958 Wheat Backs. I also have five $2 bills that I am saving. Since the bill of the article is much older and is only worth $5 – $15, I suspect that my collection is not appreciating faster than inflation. *Sigh* The problems of being an ignorant numismatist.

Executive Order #6814 — 1934 (FDR)
Implemented the Federal seizure of Silver bullion in the United States, excepting silver-coins in circulation.

“Two-Cent” piece, (copper) minted 1864-1873.

“Three Cent Silver” piece, called a “Trime,” minted 1851 to 1872. >Way COOL, very tiny! (contains .0217 troy ounces silver each.)

“Three Cent Nickel” (nickel) piece, minted 1865–1889. (replaced by the 5 cent nickel. )

“Twenty Cent” piece, (silver) minted 1875–1878. (contains 0.1447 troy ounces silver each.)

If you find any of these in circulation, don’t call the police, go to a Coin Shop!

Not a currency-guy, but that’s becoming very popular.
Currency inherently wears-out fast & is constantly being replaced. The silver-certificates in question– huge amounts were redeemed by people before they “suspended payment in specie,” & the Mint just destroyed them as a matter of course. They remain legal-tender for the face-amount & can be converted into “new” money (Fed Reserve Notes), but have a collector value that exceeds their face.
All our coinage now contains base-metal & all our currency is “Federal Reserve Notes.”

total tangent: Coins are not considered “legal tender,” paper money however states “This Note is Legal Tender for all debts public & private.”

You have to pay your taxes with Federal Reserve Notes, and nobody is legally obligated to accept coins in payment for anything. If you try to pay your taxes with a wheelbarrow full of coins, they get extremely upset & do not have to accept them.

Unfortunately, the majority of educators now are Progressive Liberals and they hate to be told they are wrong…. about anything…..

Don’t these Schools have millions of dollars of Computers and internet-access?
Nobody with a cell-phone could look this up? Nobody…
What’s worse– nobody had a clue about our own MONEY.

What else don’t people understand? (That’s rhetorical, It’s not that (most) people are inherently “stupid,” buts it’s often the case they believe things that aren’t true &/or have little understanding of what came before the day they were born.)

This does not bode well for our future.

Educators and police should be people we have confidence in.

Type in “US Treasury $2”, and up comes the choice: https://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/faqs/Currency/Pages/denominations.aspx

First three sentences: “What denominations of currency are in circulation today? Will any new denominations be produced? The present denominations of our currency in production are $1, $2, $5, $10, $20, $50 and $100.”

Not only do I ask, “what are they teaching children, these days?” but I also ask, “where do our educators get their educations?”

Aren’t educators supposed to be certified, or something?

They called the Police on this kid, which is nuts.

$2 bill (“Note”) was first issued in 1862, technically- a “silver-certificate” (until the early 1960’s.)
[Currently circulating $2 bills are “Federal Reserve Notes,” “legal tender,” and real. Not widely used but roughly 500 million notes circulate. (We have a $1 Coin that is not widely used as well.)]

The 1953 dated specimen in this article is maybe worth $5-15 to a collector. (Looks to be in bad shape.) It is a “Silver-Certificate” –possibly 1928 Series, although a design-change was made in 1953 so it could be a 1953 Series. (Design change again in the early 1960’s when they changed it to a “Federal Reserve Note.”)
–The front of this Certificate said something like “The Treasury will pay on demand $2 in silver coin.”