The notability here is that the ¥2,000 banknote in Japan is much like the $2 banknote in the US. It's a regular issue banknote without any special value, but almost never actually circulated in real life, so they're seen as rare curiosities. Likewise, normal ATMs and cash registers have no place to put them.
Apparently, you usually get these when exchanging currency, you know?July 19th is the day the ¥2,000 banknote was released!
Between the years 2000 and 2003, there were about 800 million and 8 thousand banknotes issued by the Bank of Japan!¥2,000I just happened to obtain one, and went to look up its value, but...the half-spirit's stashA ¥2,000 note was worth ¥2,000.
(but if there are doubled digits in the serial number, the value goes up!)