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I did some work for a old guy, well older than me, he paid me cash, which was in old $100 bills, 1982 bills, used these to buy stuff and you would beleive how many freaking idots are out there. Heck even one guy even called the cops on said the bills was counterfeit, i guess old bills that are that old are supposed to be takin out of circulation. Everyone tried to use the pen to see it they were real, hold them up to the light to see the strip, funny watching these idiots

Couple years ago, I sold a Colt Woodsman to a guy who paid me with $750 in $2 bills. Still have a bunch.

Upon visiting Monticello, used to be all change given back was in $2.00 bills. Still have scads of them...say 50 or 60.
After reading this thread, I might test some of the younger folk. Could be interesting...

I used to ask for them at the bank, tried to do my part in getting them to be a part of everyday currency........

Most people hoard them.

Had a friend try to 'spend' one, cashier called the manager and asked what she was supposed to do with fake money when she got it!?!?!?!?!? Manager just shook his head.

The other problem is there is no slot for a 'TWO' in the cash drawer.....

In years past they would pay the local National Guard troops in $2.00 bills, this was so the downtown merchants would get some idea of how much the Guard pay contributed to the local economy. Don't know if they still do it.

There's a grocery store in Valentine Nebraska that gives $2 bills as change. They've done that as long as I've been stopping in there on the way through. At least 20 years.

Okay, made me look.

Been so long since I saw one in circulation, wasn’t sure if they still made them. Went to Wickeydickey and they’re still cranking them out since re-introducing them as Federal Reserve Notes in 1976. I have a couple in one of my “treasure boxes”.

From Wiki:

“The relative scarcity of the $2 bill in everyday circulation has led to confusion at points of sale, as well as overreaction by merchants and even attempted prosecution of the individual trying to tender the bill.

In 2005, a man in Baltimore, Maryland, was jailed for attempting to use $2 bills that the store and local police incorrectly thought were counterfeit because of smeared ink on some of the bills.[44]

In 2016, a 13-year-old girl in Texas was detained by police for attempting to use a $2 bill to pay for lunch in her school's cafeteria. The bill, a series 1953 red seal, while still legal tender, was old enough that the school's counterfeit pen would not work on it,[45] as the chemical properties of the paper used for United States currency prior to 1960 are such that a counterfeit pen is unable to prove whether or not the bill is genuine.[46]”