I counted down my cash dwarer today when I got to work and came across 2 redseal $2 bills 1928f and a 1928g and a note I guess would be considered pairs. One of the redseal notes would be a birthday note in some countries format of birthdate Nov 4th 1902. Too bad on the $2 bills condition. Still cool to find in the wild.
Nice finds. Back in the day, superstition believed $2 bills were bad luck. Ripping the corner off got rid of the bad luck.
Those read seals are cool. I always ask for $2 bills when I go to the bank. Have yet to find a red seal...or really anything worth while when I search $1 either...
I heard that before, I wonder why they thought by tearing the corner it would get rid of the bad juju
The red seals are for sure cool finds, but they probably hung around so long because of there condition being so rough.
I don’t know exactly how the superstition started, but they were used a lot at the racetracks, and pinched like that to bring luck. The parimutuels are based on $2 bets.
I think that may be the case but I wonder how much older currency and coins will be put back into circulation due to covid, there are alot of people out there that have been put out of work and really don't know how much their coins or currency are worth that just keep it cause it looks cool or cause it's old that are desperate right now and just spend it. I think I am going to put a couple posts on local fb pages for the elderly and for ppl that don't know much about what they have to keep them from just spending it.
Horseracing was the big game back then, Eric, and the practice was very common. Don’t I look like I know something about horses? Lol. But that first red looks like a racetrack deuce as that’s what they’d do, just pinch a little off the corner. Hope he or she picked a winner with it.
Fascinating! That might explain this 1953 bill that I found in a pile of old bills that had all of its corners torn off. I thought the tears looked a little strange. The poor thing certainly didn't deserve this.
It’s another racetrack bill. Just think what Steve is saying. Why in the world would anyone need luck on a $2 or for that matter any bill? They’re picking a horse with it, that’s why.
A lot of older folks would tear the corns off a two dollar bill so they wouldn't confuse them with a twenty dollar bill.
