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2 Dollars United States Note, Red Seal right, no motto
| Issuer | United States Treasury |
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| Year | 1953 |
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| Printer | Bureau of Engraving and Printing |
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| Obverse description | Intaglio-printed in black with red letterpress overprint, the obverse centres on an engraved portrait of Thomas Jefferson set within a fine-line guilloche frame. The denomination numeral "2" and the Treasurer's facsimile signature are positioned at left, while the Secretary of the Treasury's facsimile signature flanks the circular red Treasury seal at right. Red serial numbers appear in the upper corners, and the legal tender obligation clause runs along the lower border beneath the series year. |
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| Variants | P#380a - series 1953A signatures: Priest & Anderson P#380b - series 1953B signatures: Smith & Dillon P#380c - series 1953C signatures: Granahan & Dillon |
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By 1953, the $2 United States Note was already an anachronism — Legal Tender Notes had been functionally obsolete since the Federal Reserve system matured, but Congress had never formally abolished them. The Treasury kept printing small runs largely out of institutional inertia. Public resistance to the denomination was well established; circulation was poor, and most examples were pulled from exchange immediately by collectors or superstitious recipients who considered the bill unlucky.
The 1953C series, signed by Granahan and Dillon, was the last before the 1963 redesign added the "IN GOD WE TRUST" motto. All three 1953 subseries are moderately common, though the 1953B is the scarcest of the three by print run.