1995 $2 Bill, F-B

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There is a 2009 $2 Bill in circulation but I have yet to find any. I have posted about the 2003-A, the 2003, and the classic 1976 before.  The 1995 is the the last remaining Federal Reserve $2 bill to talk about and there is not much to say.

It is common and looks like every other modern $2 note. They have not been updated and I doubt they will get the fancy security updates like the new $100 bill. The new and future twos wi;l most likely always look the same.

Older than 1976 still have the same basic design but the seal colors were red. Those are legal tender notes and will gt to them soon. For now enjoy the fact that these seldom seen $2 bill from 1976-2009 are all common and worth little extra with few exceptions. A few star notes have some decent value but those are less common to come by in your change, then again maybe you have one. Let me know.

Type/Federal Bank: $2 Note- Fort Worth / Atlanta
Year: 1995
Date Printed: November 1996
Printings: 153,600,000
Run: 9th run out of 9 from F51200001B - F57600000B
Value: $2.00 in Very-Fine

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Coined For Money: Round-Up Apr. 22-28, 2013

What is it worth? What could it be worth? And did I just get scammed? The trio of links this week will have you thinking about cash for now and hopefully for the future.

Scotland will decide what national currency to adopt. Will it be the Euro? Maybe a Sterling? Or the tried and true Scot-Dollar?

That famed 1913 nickel was sold for over $3 million and will stay in the United States.

I got slugged for a quarter.

1962-D Nickel

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To say the last few weeks have been slow for finding coins is an understatement. Still I have that 50 year or older rule so at least that gives me something to search for in what little change I come across.

Nothing special and very common so even you can have one. When there are a drought of coins anything can be a collectible. It would be nice to upgrade since a coin like this is not sharp but I have not even found and decent looking mint state coins.

Here's the stats...
Type/Country: 5 Cents / United States
Year: 1962 D
Mintage: 280,195,720
Metal: 75% Copper 25% Nickel
Value: $0.05 in G-4

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Aluminum Slug

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Got this as a quarter in a bunch of quarters from a store that just cracked open a roll of quarters. the problem is that it is not a quarter. It is lightweight (2.00 grams) and although the size is right everything else is just wrong.

I would have complained but I never featured an aluminum slug before so, tada! These can be made at any metal shop and is often the byproduct of punching out holes in fuse boxes. Many bad people often put some in quarter rolls to cheat the system.

That said there are some U.S. quarter size foreign coins that use aluminum but I doubt this is one of them. While at the moment I cannot be 100% sure the interest in blank aluminum coins is so low that it really does not matter.

Here's the stats...
Type/Country: Aluminum Blank / Unknown
Year: (No date)
Mintage: Any one with an electric drill.
Metal: Aluminum (estimate)
Value: Less than $0.01

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1964 Indonesia 10 Sen

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Taking a quick break from U.S. notes to talk about my oldest foreign note. I got this from a Cheerios box back in the 1980s when they had a special in box promotion.Cheerios has been doing this for year in the 1950s they had replica confederate money and the most famous is the Sacagewea coins from the 2000s.

BANK INDONESIA 10 SEPULUH SEN 10 1964

If I recall correctly they had 5 or 6 different notes you could collect from around the world. Of course all were worth less than a penny, yet they were uncirculated. For year I kept this one in perfect condition but one day when I was very young I found out it was the least valuable of all the cereal box money so I decided to fold it up and keep it in my wallet.

Those were the years I stopped collecting. After the state quarters came out I decided to revisit the bill and saw it is still worth little in uncirculated ($0.50) or circulated ($0.10). Still it is a neat tiny note from a time that something so small could fascinate a young collector.

Here's the stats for this bill...
Type/Country: 10 Sen / Indonesia
Year: 1964
Printings: Unknown
Printed: Unknown
Run: Unknown 
Value:  $0.05 in Fine

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Coined For Money: Round-Up Apr. 15-21, 2013

A nice summary of past and future coins this week. The Bitcoin is just getting started while the lonely pound is 30 years old.

PC Mag has a nice summary about Bitcoins except a proper explanation of how this e-currency is made. 

The British pound coin marks 30 years of a solo career after replacing the pound note in April of 1983.

I had nothing that new or old so I just wrote about the $5 bill from 1995.