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The $2 bill is legal tender, as is the JFK 50 cent piece. Once got one of those as change for a $10 bill on a Vt. ferry.
Wiki: “ $2 bills are seldom seen in circulation as a result of banking policies with businesses which has resulted in low production numbers due to lack of demand. This comparative scarcity in circulation, coupled with a lack of public knowledge that the bill is still in production and circulation, has also inspired urban legends and occasionally has created problems for people trying to use the bill to make purchases..Today, there is a common misconception by the general public that the $2 bill is no longer in production. According to the Treasury, it “receives many letters asking why the $2 bill is no longer in circulation”. In response, the Treasury stated: “The $2 bill remains one of our circulating currency denominations... As of April 30, 2007 there were $1,549,052,714 worth of $2 bills in circulation worldwide.”
They aren’t that rare. Of course, stupidity is even less rare.
I got twelve of these. My dad saved them and I got them after he passed. I often wonder if most people would recognize them as legal tender.
Okay, so the lunch lady never heard of a two dollar bill. Fine.
But a cop? Really?
I’m surprised there are people - grown ups, no less - that don’t know there is a such thing as a $2.
This seems to happen every few years.
There are modern $2 bills that aren't that old or rare.
However, if this was, in face, an "old and rare" $2, I wonder where he got it.
The stupidity boggles the mind.
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Clearly, the kid wasn’t muslin.
Isn’t this about an 8 month old story?
“Just very old and rare.”
BS.
They’re current currency. 34 million were printed last July alone.
http://www.moneyfactory.gov/uscurrency/2note.html
You can buy sheets of them, uncut new, at http://www.moneyfactorystore.gov/2currencysheetsbeptestsheet.aspx
A perfect example of the state of our education system. The “adults” at this school were totally clueless and overly reactionary.
Even if they didn’t know about $2 bills...don’t these people know how to look stuff up on the interwebs.
https://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/faqs/Currency/Pages/denominations.aspx
The Substitute in place. (warning strong language)
United States Notes have a red seal and serial number instead of the green seal and serial number of Federal Reserve Notes.
Seeing a red seal will confuse many into thinking they are counterfeit bills.
That means there are roughly 750,000,000 $2 bills in circulation or enough for every man, woman and child to have two of them.
As someone said, it is astonishing how ignorant and clueless our educators and law enforcement officers are.
I wonder what would have happened if he gave them a $1 coin :) They’re probably not aware that those exist.
How old were these officers? Bad enough the school is clueless, but the police officers?
The height of STUPIDITY AND IGNORANCE. Hey partents....this is the best you can do for your kids???