2 — Two Dollars
The artwork
Front: Thomas Jefferson at centre, after the Gilbert Stuart portrait, framed in an oval with his name on a scroll below. Left, the seal of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco with its district number 12 repeated in the corners; right, the green Treasury seal over a ghosted "TWO". Above, "FEDERAL RESERVE NOTE" and the legal tender clause; the denomination is spelled out four times in the border.
Back: An engraving after John Trumbull's "Declaration of Independence" — the committee presenting the draft to John Hancock, seated at right in the President's chair. The plate compresses Trumbull's composition, so several figures from the painting are missing. Curled "2"s sit in each corner, "TWO" runs vertically down the sides, and beneath the frame: "IN GOD WE TRUST" and "DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE, 1776".
In circulation
The Trumbull back dates from the 1976 Bicentennial reissue of the two-dollar note, which changed the earlier design from Monticello to the Declaration scene. Nothing has replaced it: the note is still legal tender and still printed in small runs, of which this Series 2013 batch is one.
Details
- CurrencyDollar
- DenominationTwo Dollars
- Collectedon the United States journeys, 2012–2016
- IssuerFederal Reserve Bank of San Francisco (district L, 12)
- Series2013
- PrinterBureau of Engraving and Printing, Fort Worth (plate marked FW)
- SignatureRosa Gumataotao Rios, Treasurer of the United States; Jacob J. Lew, Secretary of the Treasury
- Dimensions156 × 66 mm