Posted on 09/02/2016 8:44:14 AM PDT by raccoonradio
An eighth grader in Houston, TX tried to pay for lunch with a $2 bill.
Danesiah Neal told ABC News, ”I went to the lunch line, and they said my $2 bill was fake. They gave it to the police. Then they sent me to the police office. A police officer said I could be in big trouble.”
The officer told Danesiah she could be charged with a third-degree felony.
After investigating the incident, police discovered that the bill was real. Just very old and rare.
I was stranded in Seattle and needed to get to the airport. My train was cancelled
I got metro directions to the airport but needed coins to purchase the fare. Fortunately there was a money changer. I put in a $20 and out poured $18 Sacajawea $1 coins in change.
I was headed for Atlanta where the merchants would treat them like it was a $2 bill
the new “gentleman’s club” in town has a cash machine that only gives $2 bills.
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So you don’t have ‘ones’ for tips and things.
would this be a viable section 1983 complaint?!
I dunno about old.
Nothing rare about it. You can go down the bank and get some right now. At worst, you might need to call first, and get them tomorrow.
As a result of its decreasing usage, a large amount of pre-2002 half dollars remain in Federal Reserve vaults, prompting the change in production. Presently, collector half dollars can be ordered straight from the U.S. Mint,[2] and pre-2002 circulation half dollars may be ordered through most U.S. banks...Half dollar coins saw heavy use, particularly in the first half of the twentieth century. For many years, they were commonly used in casinos.,,The 1964 Kennedy half dollars were removed from circulation by the public for sentimental reasons.[citation needed] Those issued through the end of the 1960s were hoarded as the only precious metal U.S. coins remaining in production, and as the price of silver continued to rise, pre-1964 halves disappeared from circulation as well. By the time that the coin's composition was changed to match that of the clad dimes and quarters in 1971, both businesses and the public had adapted to a country in which the half dollar did not generally circulate. The quarter took over the half's role as the highest-value component of change.
grown ups, no less...”
Age is no indicator of intellectual level.
Now, a $3 bill - THAT’s something the schools will recognize.
My old hometown had a racetrack. $2 bills were common, because of the $2 window...
Who intervened before the cop took this kid to the station and booked him?
Famous story that the residents of Astoria OR were complaining a lot about the presence of the US Navy, so one pay day they paid the sailors in $2 bills. After the town’s economy was flooded with $2 bills the point was made and the belly-aching diminished.
Ask for change for an $18 bill.
They will offer two 9’s or three 6’s.
If they have passed math class.
Very old? Hey, I remember two dollar bills...
Some people have way too much time on their hands.
To take something like that so seriously? Really?
And isn’t there anyone in that school old enough to remember $2 bills?
Really????
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I have seen recruitment ads for police officers where the starting pay was shockingly low. We can’t afford to dumpster-dive for low quality applicants when the job is that important.
AFAIK, each and every coin and Bill ever produced under the US government is legal tender. This doesn’t come up much because of the generally higher nusimatic value of older money.
There are minor exceptions, for example, they won’t give you silver for a silver certificate 1.00 bill anymore. But it is still worth 1.00.
The cash machine at my work 10 years ago gave out change in $1 coin. The vending machines were all adapted to accept them. This was in Nashville.
Exactly! And the story is from Houston. The business tag line is “We Pay Yew In Two Dollar Bills!!!!” and they have billboards everywhere.
I’m currently printing 20 one trillion dollar bills and plan to pay off the US debt, then, we’re all taking 2017 off and relaxing, we deserve it, it’s been over two hundred years and our country deserves a break.
I think it’s called a gentleman’s club because you act like a gentleman or you tossed out on your keister.
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