I hesitated before posting this, because it is not a Federal Reserve Note, but here is your $3.00 bill
Back in the dawn of time in Alberta, paying in $2 bills was frowned upon because it was obvious that you’d just been a degenerate hanging around the racetrack all day.
The worst thing about the Dope. Why don’t you just Google it?
There are plenty of small-circulation three dollar bills from local areas, and lots of novelty (non-money) three dollar bills. And there was a three dollar gold piece in use in the 19th century
But no nationwide 20th century three dollar bills I know of, even as test pieces.
PUT YOURSELF in Mike Bolesta’s place. On the morning of Feb. 20, he buys a new radio-CD player for his 17-year-old son Christopher’s car. He pays the $114 installation charge with 57 crisp new $2 bills, which, when last observed, were still considered legitimate currency in the United States proper. The $2 bills are Bolesta’s idea of payment, and his little comic protest, too.
For this, Bolesta, Baltimore County resident, innocent citizen, owner of Capital City Student Tours, finds himself under arrest.
Here is one cite; the guy tried to use two-dollar bills at a Best Buy, I think in Maryland.
Right; sorry, that’s the cite I found. Sorry I didn’t put it up. I know it was kind of a wild claim.
Not sure if this is what you intended, but the two dollar bill was produced and in circulation long before 1976. Right now that auction site lists several from 1928.
Don’t be sorry. We even had a thread on it here. Calling someone out for a cite when the mentioned topic is both well known and easy to verify in like 30 seconds is on the other people.
That’s actually pretty lucky. I’ve lived here all my life and I’ve only ever got them as change 2 or 3 times. It’s comparatively rare even for Americans. Even more now that so many transactions are cashless.
Yeah, my experience matches @Great_Antibob’s, not @Schnitte’s. I’m wondering when and where he was getting all those $2 bills.
When a new $20 was introduced years ago, a cashier at a store I was at wasn’t informed. Luckily, the coworker she called over knew of the new notes and the Secret Service did not need to get involved.
I use cash a lot and can’t remember ever getting one as change. I worked retail (including a coffee shop where smaller notes were pretty common) and only got a handful.
Can one just ring up the Feds like that and get them involved? Would they hurry over there for a single $20? Conversely, what about a customer whose official legal tender is not being accepted (perhaps an older Federal Reserve Note)—would the Feds deal with it?
trivia: a bank teller once told me that not only did they have no $1000 bills to give me, their instructions were to take out of circulation any they did run across, despite they being legal tender.
“Just Google it” is not how the SDMB works, IMHO. If someone makes a claim, they should the one to provide documentation.
Just because money is legal tender does not require it to be in circulation.
I was mostly joking. If it was actually counterfeit, yes, the Secret Service is the investigating agency. Local police would take me into custody and notify the Feds. Similarly, local law enforcement respond to a bank robbery in progress which is later investigated by FBI.
There are also ways the public can reach various Federal law enforcement agencies for things like calling in tips or coming forward as a witness to a crime.
Edit to add:
… they have no $1000 bills to give me, their instructions were to take out of circulation …
$500 notes, too. $100 is the largest denomination still produced.
In the case of the guy arrested at Best Buy for trying to spend two-dollar bills, the police officer also thought the bill were not real and he wasn’t freed until the Secret Service was consulted.
It’s following basic burden of proof, which exists for a reason The person who makes a claim needs to back it up. Claims are easy to make, and we would be overwhelmed with spurious ones if people weren’t expected to back them up.
You might say that Googling something takes little effort, but making that the norm adds up. Plus it’s not like you would just take the top result or anything—you’d want to check the quality and veracity of the source.
I love it. It’s far more annoying being on, say, Twitter, where people just say things without any evidence, and seeing so many people just believe them unquestioningly.
It had been produced and circulated, but it was discontinued in 1966. Then they gave it a facelift and put it into circulation to celebrate the bicentennial.
You guys in the USA probably don’t see many US$2 notes, but last time I was in Zimbabwe, the economy basically ran on them.
Each note was generally as soft as toilet paper, having been passed through so many hands, but given the currency crisis and difficulty of raising Forex, the $2 was the biggest note that was around. I took some US$100s, and when I bought anything (diesel is expensive there!) I got my change in numerous limp, tired US$2 bills