US Banknotes

Please check your bill and post a new question. The US didn't print any $5 bills dated 1913.

There were no $1 bills printed with that date. Please check again and post a new question.

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You need to supply the coin's denomination. ALL U.S. coins carry the motto E Pluribus Unum - check your pocket change, please - so this does not help to identify it.

The U.S. didn't print any $100 bills dated 1936. Please check again and post a new question.

The dates on US Paper Money denote the year that particular design started. Because of this, Notes printed over a number of years may have the same Series date. There were no Series 1948 $5 Notes printed. The Series 1934 $5 bills were printed with that date from 1934 to 1950, when the Series 1950 began.

Please check your bill again and post a new, separate question including its date. No small-size $1 US Notes had a "D" series letter.

30-40 dollars more than the face value

If you're talking about modern green-seal $2 bills dated 1976 or later, the answer is no. These bills are readily available from larger banks and have no extra value.

If your bills are older, it depends on the relative collector value of each. If you have older bills, please post a new question with their dates.

This bill is still printed by the U.S. Treasury, but in much smaller quantities than other denominations. To know a specific value you'll need to identify the bill by its date and seal color. However, all green-seal $2 bills dated 1976 or later have no extra value if you got them in change.

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Two dollar bills, for the most part, are just worth two dollars. However, some of the older ones are worth more because they are in demand by collectors. But even then, you would only get extra money if you sold it to a collector, not if you tried to use it for a regular purchase.

There is a misconception about the 2 dollar bill no longer being in circulation.

The treasury said, "The $2 bill remains one of our circulating currency denominations. According to BEP statistics, 590,720,000 Series 1976 $2 bills were printed and as of February 28, 1999, there was $1,166,091,458 worth of $2 bills in circulation worldwide."

The word circulation simply means that the money is not redeemed for shredding.

In fact, in 2005 alone, 61 million 2 dollar bills were printed in the U.S. Bureau of Engraving and Printing.

Funny facts:

Some people do not know that the two dollar bill is a real U.S. currency. Here are some stories from Wikipedia:

"In a story documented on Snopes.com, a Taco Bell patron at the mall attempted to pay for a burrito with a two-dollar bill. The cashier and the store manager both refused to accept it as valid U.S. currency, believing that there was no such thing as a two-dollar bill. When the patron then said that the only other bill he had was a fifty-dollar bill, the manager said that since it was less than an hour to closing, he didn't want to open the safe. When the patron insisted on paying with it, they called the security guard, who then explained that two-dollar bills are actually valid U.S. currency.

Others have written in to Snopes to report similar incidents at other restaurants. In February 2005, a patron of Best Buy attempted to pay for an electronics installation with 57 $2 bills. The cashier refused to accept them and marked them as counterfeit. The cashier then called the police, and the patron was handcuffed and transported to the county lockup. The Secret Service agent that was sent to the jail cleared up the issue. The suspicion was supposedly caused by ink smearing on the bill. The serial numbers were in sequential order."

The last silver certificate $1 bills were printed until 1965. However they were dated either 1957-B or 1935-H bills. Redemption of bills for silver dollars ended in March, 1964, and for silver bullion in June, 1968.

Silver certificates were bills whose value was backed by holdings of an equal amount of silver metal by the U.S. Treasury. The government controlled the price of silver so they were able to keep a close link between the number of bills in circulation and the amount of precious metal on deposit.

By 1963 demand for silver had risen so high that the government was forced to let its value float on the open market. The decision to halt redemption for silver metal was needed because a floating price would have allowed speculators to "game" the system by trading metal and certificates back and forth based on fluctuations in value.

The first $1 Federal Reserve Notes were issued in 1963. $5 and larger bills were already being issued as FRN's and in some cases U.S. Notes as well as silver certificates. By 1966 production of all silver certificates and U.S. Notes was ended and we now only have Federal Reserve notes.

A standard US dollar bill is approximately 0.0043 inches thick. Therefore, it takes about 233 dollar bills stacked together to make a height of 1 inch. This calculation is based on dividing 1 inch by the thickness of a single bill.

Your bill was specially-printed during WWII for use in North Africa. The seal color was originally yellow but may have darkened with age; please see the question "What is the value of a 1934 A US 5 dollar silver certificate with a yellow seal?" for much more information.

The $2 bill has not been discontinued. New ones are printed as needed. The most recent series is dated 2008.

As a form of identification and tracking, as well as accountability with the US government.

Alexander Hamilton.

While it's not Answers.com policy to say "use the Internet", that's the best approach in this case. You can use any major search engine, or look at the "Large Denominations" page at moneyfactory (dot) gov, the Bureau of Engraving and Printing website.

$500 bills have never been formally withdrawn but it's essentially impossible to find them in circulation today. No bills larger than $100 have been printed since the 1940s and banks haven't been allowed to distribute them since 1969.

Other high denomination bills were $1000, $5000, and $10,000. They too were discontinued in the 1940s and distribution ended at the same time as $500 bills.

Please don't assume that every old bill is a silver certificate. The banner across its top and the green seal indicate it's a Federal Reserve Note, the same type of paper money used today.

There's more information at the question "What is the value of a 1934 A US 500 dollar bill?".

No one keeps statistics on how many people use particular denominations of money. However given that the average US $1 bill stays in circulation for 2.5 to 3.5 years and that the bills are heavily used, they probably change hands at least once a day. That would equate to about 900 to 1100 people using each one during its existence.

As of 11/2011, it might sell for $52 in nearly-uncirculated condition, $60 in crisp uncirculated condition. A dealer will pay face value only.

1976 and later (green-seal notes): a partial reproduction of John Trumbull's famous painting depicting the signing of the Declaration of Independence.

Up to 1963 (red-seal notes): a picture of Thomas Jefferson's home, Monticello.

Thomas Jefferson's portrait is on the front of both types of bill.

Note that all current American bills have captions on them identifying the person pictured on the front and the scene or building on the back.