The rarest kind is the Series 1888 silver certificate with a blue seal less than fifty examples are known to exist today. The most common large-size two-dollar bill is from Series 1865 with a red seal however, this note is relatively rare in circulated condition. There are eleven different kinds of two-dollar bills that were printed as large sizes: six have red seals, and five have blue seals. From 1869 to 1899, the backs of all two-dollar bills featured a red seal in the middle of the bill. Toward the end of large-size bill production, different series started featuring different wording on the back side of the bill. On the back of each bill was either a vignette of Monticello or a picture of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. All large-size two-dollar bills featured a portrait of Alexander Hamilton on the front side of the bill.
Large-size two-dollar bills were printed until 1928 and again from 1963 to 1966.
In 1862, the United States first printed two-dollar bills as large-size notes.
