$2 anyone?

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I have two, one from 1976, the other is from 2013.
There are people who cannot imagine that there are other ways of life than their own life. :facepalm:
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John Bingham wrote: ↑Fri Mar 22, 2019 9:32 pm It's very lucky to keep one in your wallet.
I had one in my wallet but lost it when my wallet was stolen.
Lucky I only had small money in it as well as the $2 note
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bobsboots wrote: ↑Fri Mar 22, 2019 9:33 pm At least they remembered the question mark.
At least it's legal tender?????????????????????????????
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bobsboots wrote: ↑Fri Mar 22, 2019 9:43 pm
Chamboy wrote: ↑Fri Mar 22, 2019 9:31 pm The sequence of events is not particularly lucid. How or why did he get the $2 bill back to slip into the till?
Well I kind of noticed the said bill and mentioned it to the kind gentleman,who smiled expansively as I gave it back to him, shaking my head and tutting. Is that lucid enough ?
A definite improvement of a heretofore obscure chain of events.
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Chamboy wrote: ↑Fri Mar 22, 2019 9:35 pm
John Bingham wrote: ↑Fri Mar 22, 2019 9:32 pm It's very lucky to keep one in your wallet.
I find it very fortunate indeed to have any money to keep in my wallet.
Well I only had a $2 bill once or twice and once all the other cash in my wallet was gone they were never going to last long. 8-)
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Arget wrote: ↑Fri Mar 22, 2019 9:49 pm
John Bingham wrote: ↑Fri Mar 22, 2019 9:32 pm It's very lucky to keep one in your wallet.
I had one in my wallet but lost it when my wallet was stolen.
Lucky I only had small money in it as well as the $2 note
so apparently they are not that lucky
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I don't get it, why wouldn't you want a two dollar bill? I would have never thought of it.
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There was a time here when $2 notes were considered lucky and prized. You could sell them to money changers for a healthy markup.

I think it was Cam Nivag who once brought a suitcase full of $2 bills to Cambodia, sold them off to money changers, and was able to fund the entirety of his trip with the proceeds. ;-)
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Brody wrote: ↑Sat Mar 23, 2019 12:39 pm There was a time here when $2 notes were considered lucky and prized. You could sell them to money changers for a healthy markup.

I think it was Cam Nivag who once brought a suitcase full of $2 bills to Cambodia, sold them off to money changers, and was able to fund the entirety of his trip with the proceeds. ;-)
Total bullshit
A friend of mine brought 100 or more of them over years ago. There is nothing unusual about them except the small number of them in circulation.
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Can Blabberbag posted such theory but did not execute.
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