The truth about the $3.00 bill

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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As we all know, the metaphore that has been used countless times to describe something that is completely fake is refered to in comparison to a three dollar bill.

So is the three dollar bill completely fake?

Mabey not!

If you are an avid collector of current and historical paper money minted in the United States, you are probably aware that Congress and the U S. Mint had TWO very significant events from U.S. history in mind as we approached the Bicentennial in 1976.

They wanted these two historical events depicted on new denominations of U S. Paper money.

One was the signing of the Declaration of Indrpendence, and the other was the Constitutional convention.

As we know in 1976, the two dollar bill was created and put into circulation as it remains today.

It of course features the Signing of the Declaration of Independence on the back with the chief architect, Thomas Jefferson, on the front.

But what about the Constitutional Convention?

You may have heard rumors that the idea was to place the Constitutional Convention on another new denomination of U.S. paper currency on the back, with the chief architect, James Madison, on the front.

But this could only be done on another denomination of currency.

Most people who are familiar with this legend agree that the most likely new denomination would be the number three.

Although this cannot be confirmed, it is believed that the complete design for this bill was actually completed, and it stands to reason that the U S. Mint most probably printed a small number of prototypes.

As we know this bill, whatever the denomination may be, was never put into circulation, but was cancelled like a really bad sitcom.

If this bill was printed and became factually known to the public, the story would have been that these prototypes were destroyed.

There is no doubt in my mind, if the bills were printed, that all of them were not destroyed, and they could have possibly been stolen or smuggled out of the U S. Mint.

This means they may be in someones private collection.

But furthermore, I don’t know what the most valuable piece of historical U.S. currency in mint condition is worth, but if these bills in question were ever made public, or confirmed to exist, they would be confiscated by the government, but they would be worth a fortune!

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Well, they are pretty much the equivalent of nuclear weapons so that all checks out.

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How much in circulation Are 2 dollar bills?

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It is believed by whom?
It does not “stand to reason” that even if a complete design was completed that any prototypes were printed up. Are there examples of unapproved prototypes of other American paper currency that were printed up?

Never heard these rumors. Where did you hear them?

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Kind of hard to prove or disprove such a statement since there is no evidence given that anyone has ever claimed to have had such a bill in their possession at any time.
What factual evidence are you basing any of these claims on?

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I have one or two in a drawer somewhere.

I suspect—but do not know and don’t feel like looking up a cite right now—that they’re “in circulation” in the sense that they were designed to be used and spent just like any other currency, and that status has never changed, but they’re so rare, and their curiosity value so exceeds their monetary value, that almost anyone who gets one nowadays is far more likely to hang onto it than to recirculate it.

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The proposition of “Wouldn’t it be cool if…”

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Sort of like the OP’s idea in another thread that “Dan (D.B.) Cooper” the hijacker was actually a (frail and bedbound at the time) Howard Hughes?

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Reasonably enough in circulation. Some people consider them a bit of a good luck symbol. I usually carry one in my work case.

There’s a scrap metal place in Houston that advertises with “We pay you in $2 bills!”

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I have one with me right now! :slight_smile:

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Whenever I get money from my bank I ask for any two dollar bills they might have, then I redistribute them.

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Two dollar bills are circulated in Europe among the US Forces who are stationed there, and their dependents.

~VOW

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If we put them together, we have the irrefutable fact that the three-dollar bill has the real face of D. B. Cooper on the front. That’s why the FBI won’t let it be released. And also why they raided Mar-a-Lago since they knew Trump had thousands of them hidden in Melania’s underwear drawer. Which itself is why she said she needed to buy all new underwear, code for getting another horde of D. B. Cooper bills. When the revolution comes, the True Believers will use three-dollar bills as identification - no microchips.

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About 1.2 billion.

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This same OP could have been written about extra terrestials, with that many disclaimers.

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$2 bills can’t be so rare. I’ve only visited the United States several times on visits that just lasted a few weeks each, and I remember getting at least one in everyday transactions (and re-spending it). I’m sure your bank can get them for you if you ask for it, so I doubt they have a collector’s value that exceeds $2.

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Personally, I hesitate to spend $2 bills, because cashiers sometimes don’t believe they’re real, and there’s been at least one documented case of someone getting arrested for it.

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Arrested? :face_with_raised_eyebrow:

Or just questioned by police at the place?

The $2 bill was also made for racetrack betting.

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Gonna need a cite for this documentation.

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$2 are not rare by any definition. They are of course the least common paper currency but they are easy to come by at any bank branch in the country and anyone with an inclination to collect one probably has a few in a drawer somewhere. As cited above there’s over a billion of them in active circulation.