Assuming your bill has a 1934 date, it was printed for use by soldiers during the North Africa campaign of WWII. (The 1934 date was retained even though the bills were actually issued almost a decade later.)
Gold seals were used so the bills could be easily identified and declared worthless if they fell into enemy hands.
Any red-seal US $2 bill dated 1928 or later is a United States Note and not a certificate. Certificates were exchangeable for silver or gold, and carried the words Silver Certificate or Gold Certificate across the top. Please see the question "What is the value of a (date) US 2 dollar bill?" for more information, where (date) is your bill's series date.
the thing is, is that the amount of gold on earth never changes. and why they want to fuxuate the value of the dollar based on gold(which is a fixed amount) is beyond me...
It made silver worth more than gold
The US stopped making regular circulation $1 gold coins in 1889. The only $1 gold pieces issued after that were commemoratives sold to collectors, and none were minted in 1923.If you have a large (38.1 mm) coin with an eagle and the word PEACE on the back, you have a silver dollar that was plated with a small amount of gold. The plating destroyed any collectors' value so it's only worth the silver it contains, about $10 as of 11/2009.
If you're referring to a large coin that's really made of silver, its value depends on the price of silver at the current time. Silver has been in the $10-$11/oz range in late 2008 but can and does change a lot. If you have a small gold-colored coin it's not silver obviously, and it's not gold either. It's an ordinary circulating brass $1 coin worth exactly one dollar.
Please check your bill again. As the banner across the top indicates, it's a silver certificate, not gold. All gold certificates were withdrawn in 1933. There's more information at the question "What is the value of a 1957 US 1 dollar silver certificate?"
The silver certificate and the gold certificate were replaced by the Federal Reserve Dollar.
The Chief 1899 $5 dollar silver certificate is paper money.
The U.S. has never issued a $1,000,000 bill, ever. Even if it did, it would have been a gold certificate, not silver. As such, it would receive very little value, since it is fake.
Any red-seal US $2 bill dated 1928 or later is a United States Note and not a certificate. Certificates were exchangeable for silver or gold, and carried the words Silver Certificate or Gold Certificate across the top. Please see the question "What is the value of a (date) US 2 dollar bill?" for more information, where (date) is your bill's series date.
1928-series $100 bills weren't issued as silver certificates, only gold certificates and Federal Reserve Notes. Please look at the bill's front to determine which you have; then check one of the following: "What is the value of a 1928 US 100 dollar Federal Reserve Note?" "What is the value of a 1928 US 100 dollar gold certificate?"
1928 $50 bills weren't issued as silver certificates. Please check the wording across your bill's top front; then see one of the following questions:"What is the value of a 1928 US 50 dollar Federal Reserve Note?""What is the value of a 1928 US 50 dollar gold certificate?"
The United States did not print a 1915 $10,000 gold certificate.
Please don't assume that every old bill has to be a silver certificate. 1928 $10 bills were issued as gold certificates with gold seals and as Federal Reserve Notes, with the familiar green seal and the words "Federal Reserve Note" across the top.Please check the bill's seal color and wording across your bill's top front; then see one of the following questions:"What is the value of a 1928 US 10 dollar Federal Reserve Note?""What is the value of a 1928 US 10 dollar gold certificate?"
One dollar.
The term "certificate" is used for silver and gold certificate bills; a red seal indicates you have a different form of currency called a United States Note. Please see the question "What is the value of a 1928 US 5 dollar bill?" for more information.
The 1972 Eisenhower dollar has no silver in it and the gold plating don't do nothing for the value but it's still a dollar