How much is a 2005 2 dollar bill in 22kt gold worth?

Answer 1

For those of you in doubt, there were $2 bills made of embossed 22KT Gold and Silver that are legal tender. In each year of issue there were only 5000 made. Recent auctions of these bills including certificate are selling for roughly $200. The major problem with these bills is in how they are stored. Any pressure and the embossing is harmed, any bending is permanent. They are quite odd as they are large and thick, as thick as construction paper and just as stiff. Finding pristine specimens becomes more difficult with age as most people stacked them flat and their own weight ruins them over time. They must be stored on end or edge without any pressure applied. They cannot be handled with bare hands at all. It is also a true statement that if you used these bills to make purchases they are only worth face value. At least some of the issue versions are 1886 Silver Certificate copies and are actual Silver Certificates. This should help clear up any crass opinions and malicious statements or malevolent accusations that these bills do not exist in reality. I would know, I have twenty of them total.

CorrectionAccording to the US Treasury all such "bills" are privately-issued items. There were NO genuine 2005-dated US $2 bills printed, only 2006, and these were standard paper Federal Reserve Notes with green seals.

Numerous private companies take ordinary bills, layer them with silver and/or gold, and sell them as "collectibles", although they have little value outside of the novelty market. The Treasury - and most currency collectors - consider them to be altered items.

Other companies make replicas in precious metals. These are worth at least as much as their metal content and so can be sold or traded as bullion. They're not genuine bills and cannot be spent legally but in any case doing that would usually be foolish because most have more, possibly a lot more, than $2 worth of metal.