During the years of the Great Depression and prior, two dollars was a lot of money. From the time of its original production in 1862, this bill has occupied a strange spot in the list of currency denominations.
In fact, 2-dollar bills weren't even produced from 1970 through 1975 because of lack of demand.Īnother reason for the rarity of 2-dollar bills involves the economy and inflation. One of the reasons 2-dollar bills are so rare is that fewer of them were printed.
That may sound like a lot, but when you compare it to the 11.7 billion 1-dollar bills in circulation, it takes on a new perspective. Two-dollar bills are the rarest currently produced money in the United States, and only about 1.2 billion 2-dollar bills are in current circulation. According to Business Insider, 2-dollar bills account for less than 0.001% of all currency in circulation.
