Posted on 05/04/2016 8:17:32 AM PDT by Petrosius
Edited on 05/04/2016 8:38:17 AM PDT by Sidebar Moderator. [history]
Easy mistake. It was an older bill with Monticello on the reverse.
Newer ones(twos?) have a portrait of the signing of the Declaration of Independence would have been easily recognized.
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This is like the clock/bomb boy
This is definitely a publicity stunt.
That particular style of 2 dollar bill has not been printed since the mid 1960s. The new ones look very different.
That two dollar bill is an old silver certificate and has numismatic value. LOL
The school didn’t think to look at the Treasury Dept website to confirm that $2 bills exist? For years, my MIL sent $2 bills to my kids in cards for birthdays and holidays for fun.
That was my thought too. Her $2 bill was worth a bit more than $2.00.
And they should be. If you're going to have your staff check US currency, then you'd better give them some minimum training on the subject. Even a pamphlet would do.
That girl was not just denied her lunch. She was taken to a police office and questioned by a cop. She did absolutely nothing wrong. This is all - 100% - due to the stupidity of authorities. I hope her family gets a couple of bucks for the harassment.
“Actually it was the age of the bill, 1953, that when the pen they run across to see if it is counterfeit did not produce the correct results.”
It’s still made out of the same “rag paper” that money is today, isn’t it? Or would time affect it in some way?
I don’t think it’s a matter of remembering there is a $2 bill, it’s more a sign of total stupidity by an increasingly large portion of our population.
I once witnessed an argument at the post office where the Clark was insisting that shipping to New Mexico was an international transaction.
“I always thought that the rendering of Jefferson on the $2 bill looked more like Buddy Ebsen. Weeee Doggies!”
Look at a $50 and tell me that isn’t really Robert DeNiro!
The idjits possibly were freaking out because it was not a Federal Reserve Note, not because it was a $2 bill.
US Notes have a red seal, and FR notes from that period had a blue one (nowadays FR notes have a green seal.)
All the same, see what you get when you add power to stupid....
Years ago when my daughter was getting on the bus for their “sober grad night” festivities at a large miniature golf course/arcade/water park/race track/batting cages - I slipped her a wad of $50 in two dollar bills. She said it was the hit of the evening, and ever since then she has had a fondness for $2 bills.
I’ve had one in my wallet for 40 years that my mother gave me. She said to keep it in my wallet and I’ll never be broke.
Aha!
I saw this posted yesterday but could not respond with my speculation, which turned out to be true, assuming the bill depicted is the bill at issue.
As an amateur numismatist, when I first heard about this the first thing that crossed my mind was that it might be an “old” $2.00 bill (from about 1963 to April 13, 1976 they didn’t make any).
The “old” ones are “United States Notes”, not “Federal Reserve Notes”. It says so right above Jefferson. They have red letters and a red seal. United States Notes were authorized to be printed under a Civil War statute.
Now we see a photo of the bill. I was actually able to tell from the BACK of the bill that this was an old, pre-1963 United States note because it has Monticello on the back. The 1976 and later notes are Federal Reserve Notes and have a completely different back - a picture of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.
Moreover, I could tell from the back that this was not a series 1963 note (the newest of the “old” kind) because it lacked the motto “In God We Trust” over Monticello.
This is a “1953A” note, as stated on the front. That does not mean it is from 1953. You can tell the approximate date of issue from the signatures. Robert B. Anderson was Sec. Treasury from 57 to 61 under Eisenhower.
BTW, Ivy Baker Priest, the Treasurer as shown on the note, was the aunt of Pat Priest who played Marilyn on the Munsters.
Even without the benefit of my store of essentially useless trivial knowledge, no adult in their right mind would leap at the conclusion that the bill was fake. It is professionally done. It is dated 63 years ago (even though it’s a bit newer than that). The geniuses who charged the kid should have figured that much out, and realized “Duh, I don’t know what $2 bills looked like in 1953. It looks like a professional job, maybe it’s just old, not fake.”
It would take about 1 minute to find an exemplar of a 1953 series A $2 bill by googling and confirm that the note is no more suspect than any other note in circulation.
The only question I would have would be “where did you get this from?”
That’s a question I had at my local bank when I saw a teller scrutinzing an old $10.00 bill with the big serial numbers given to her a few weeks ago. Most people won’t spend those so when I see them I think someone was tapping someone else’s collection.
I tried to finagle the teller into trading it to me for a new $10.00 but she did not bite.
Yes and those quarter sized dollar coins were even worse.
WTF is a “Perseverance Chant” ?
The local “gentlemen’s club” here gives out $2 bills as change to its customers so that these devotees of dance can express a proper level of admiration to the artist.
I've never looked it up before, and all my $2 bills were of the 1976-present variety, so I'm only familiar with the reverse image showing the signing of the Declaration of Independence. However, I would have done a quick search on the older bill (as shown by the issue date of 06/09/62, and the series 1952 A), and immediately given the girl a fiver for it. I love the modern $2 bill for the image on the reverse side, but the one this girl had is fairly rare, and worth the extra $3.00 to me. Apparently it is to other collectors, as well.
Where is the source attribution for this article (IF it’s real?)
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