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As well, "$2 notes were often returned to the Treasury with corners torn off, making them mutilated currency and unfit for reissue." So if you come across a $2 bill, go ahead and spend it. Or gift it.
The 2-cent George Washington stamp appeared with two different designs (the original version was poorly received) while each of the other values has its own individual design. [ 21 ] [ 35 ] This was the first U.S. definitive series to include the image of a woman: Martha Washington, who appeared on the 8-cent stamp.
During the summer of 2010, the USPS requested the Postal Regulatory Commission to raise the price of a first-class stamp by 2 cents, from 44 cents to 46 cents, to take effect January 2, 2011. On September 30, 2010, the PRC formally denied the request, but the USPS filed an appeal with the Federal Court of Appeals in Washington DC .
On the 1 and 2-cent denominations the amount of postage is worded as ONE CENT and as TWO CENTS, while on the remaining denominations (3-cents to 1 dollar) the amount of postage appears in numerals. Franklin is depicted only on the one cent denomination in this series; Washington appears on the values from two cents to 1-dollar.
A two-cent piece had been proposed in 1806 by Connecticut Senator Uriah Tracy, along with a twenty-cent piece or "double dime". Reflecting the then-prevalent view that coins should contain their value in metal, Tracy's bill provided that the two-cent piece be made of billon, or debased silver.
Authorized under an act by the United States Congress, the first two-dollar bill was issued in March 1862 [5] and the denomination was continuously used until 1966; by that time, the United States Note was the only remaining class of U.S. currency to which the two-dollar bill was assigned.
There are six denominations of Canadian circulation coinage in production: 5¢, 10¢, 25¢, 50¢, $1, and $2. Officially they are each named according to their value (e.g. "10-cent piece"), but in practice only the 50-cent piece is known by that name.
One booklet had two panes, another was offered with four, and the third with eight. [17] In preparing the Series of 1902, 2¢-booklet production figured in the Post Office’s earliest plans. Accordingly, the Washington "flag" stamp booklets of two, four, or eight panes went on sale only a week after the sheet version appeared, on January 24, 1903.