NOTABLE INTERVIEWEES

CHARLENE WILLIAMS

CHARLENE WILLIAMS

CHARLENE WILLIAMS

The Director of Manufacturing at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing in Fort Worth, Texas, Ms. Williams explains how frequently $2 bills are produced, who decides how many to make and when, and she explains the process of how $2 bills are made.

ERIK MINTZ

CHARLENE WILLIAMS

CHARLENE WILLIAMS

Erik is an MIT graduate who, after an inspiring encounter with a $2 bill in one of his graduate classes, began a year-long research project on the currency. His findings are an integral part of the film’s structure. Soon after, Erik joined the project as an Associate Producer.

BEN COHEN

CHARLENE WILLIAMS

RICHARD JUREK

You know him as the Ben in Ben & Jerry’s ice cream, but nowadays, Mr. Cohen oversees The Stamp Stampede, whose aim is to eliminate money from politics. Stamping messages on paper currency is the thing, but Cohen explains how much more effective it is to use a $2 bill.

RICHARD JUREK

FREDERICK BART

RICHARD JUREK

Mr. Jurek has always admired the $2 bill and the United States space program. His collection of $2 bills that have been on Mercury, Gemini and Apollo missions is impressive. He profiles his collection and shares the incredible stories of why the astronauts carried them aboard.

JOE NICKELL

FREDERICK BART

FREDERICK BART

An expert on the paranormal and well versed in superstition lore, Mr. Nickell shares some of the origins of how the $2 bill was perceived as bad luck. He highlights hidden symbols of the Illuminati on the back of the bill and explains some of the ways the “curse” can be removed.

FREDERICK BART

FREDERICK BART

FREDERICK BART

Mr. Bart is the CEO of ExecutiveCurrency.com and a published expert on paper currency errors. Since $2 bills are more scarce than other denominations, errors on them make them more valuable. Bart has some of the more amazing $2 errors and shares them in the film.

MYRTA GSCHAAR

DR. FRANKLIN NOLL

DR. FRANKLIN NOLL

Ms. Gschaar has perhaps the most fascinating and touching story in the film. After losing her husband in the tragedy of September 11, it was a $2 bill that gave her the closure she needed to accept his death. Hers is a powerful story about the ways a $2 bill connects people.

DR. FRANKLIN NOLL

DR. FRANKLIN NOLL

DR. FRANKLIN NOLL

Dr. Noll is an accomplished historian whose specialization is in the financial and monetary history of the U.S. Government. As such, he was a perfect fit to share facts and insight into the history of the $2 bill from its 19th century designs through the reissue in 1976.

ROBERT WATSON

DR. FRANKLIN NOLL

An esteemed author, professor and media commentator, Dr. Watson’s passion for the American presidency is his greatest attribute. So there was little doubt that he would be the one to talk about the president synonomous with the $2 bill: Thomas Jefferson.

LAURA KESSLER

The former Vice President of PCGS Currency—which authenticates & grades collectible monies, Ms. Kessler shares a wealth of information about why twos are perceived as valuable, and the several circumstances that would in fact make them worth more than $2.

HANK ESKIN

MIKE BOLESTA / KURT KOLLER

Hank is the founder of the extremely popular website Where's George, where users can stamp and track their one dollar bills as they're spent across the country (and around the world). Hank informs us that the $2 bill has a huge subculture of users that also populate his website.

MIKE BOLESTA / KURT KOLLER

MIKE BOLESTA / KURT KOLLER

These two gentlemen have stories about the $2 bill that seem hard to believe. Yet both tales are true. Each encountered managers at popular national franchises who did not believe that $2 bills were real. What happened next is the stuff urban legends are made of.


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