On eBay, an ordinary two can fetch double its actual worth or a stack of 50 might go for $120.
“I want to disabuse Americans of the idea that the $2 bill isn’t printed anymore,” she said. McCabe, 39, a copy editor, bought a sandwich in Park Slope, Brooklyn, using a five, some ones and a two. On a recent Friday afternoon, armed with her little black notebook and a heap of twos, Ms. Forty-five million more of the bills, which have images of Thomas Jefferson on one side and the signing of the Declaration of Independence on the other, went into production last October at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing outpost in Fort Worth, the first run since 2009. Twos continue to be printed every few years, based on demand. The most plentiful denominations, the $1 and $100 bills, each number about 10 billion. But they account for only 3 percent of the total volume of notes, according to the Federal Reserve. There are one billion $2 bills in circulation, which may sound like a lot. “Americans in America want to pay American money to buy American money?” she wrote on her blog, Two Buckaroo, where she documents reactions to twos.
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