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Does a $2.00 bill really exist?
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#111702. Asked by Danny5. (Dec 24 09 10:38 PM)
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Although printed by the US government, today you never see them in circulation. They are awkward to use. Americans are very comfortable with our paper ones, fives, tens, twenties, fifties, and hundreds.
In a story, documented on Snopes.com, a Taco Bell patron attempted to pay for a burrito with a two-dollar bill. The cashier and the store manager both refused to accept it as valid U.S. currency, believing that there was no such thing as a two-dollar bill. When the patron then said that the only other bill he had was a fifty-dollar bill, the manager said that since it was less than an hour to closing, he didn't want to open the safe. When the patron insisted on paying with it, they called the security guard, who then explained that two-dollar bills are actually valid U.S. currency.
In February 2005, a patron of Best Buy attempted to pay for an electronics installation with 57 $2 bills. The cashier refused to accept them and marked them as counterfeit. The cashier then called the police, and the patron was handcuffed and transported to the county lockup. The Secret Service agent that was sent to the jail cleared up the issue.
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_two-dollar_bill
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