"Discover Coveted NEW U.S. Currency"

I just opened on of my monthly bills and there is an insert with the subject line in big letter across the top. "The All-New U.S $2 Yellowstone National Park Bill", "Genuine Legal Tender". Offered to me for only $9.99 plus free shipping (but sales tax is extra), which is a 67% savings over the $24.95 plus $4.95 regular price.

Please don't tell me this, from the Bradford Exchange, is for real.

 

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Unfortunately, yes, it's real.
Fortunately, for The Bradford Exchange, suckers are real, too.

 

Funny -- until I saw this image, I never pictured Jefferson rolling his eyes in this portrait. Now, I can't un-see it.

 

Wait until the "Alien" money hits! 1976 $2 bills with alien illuminati numbers that glow in the dark showing the true value in space gold that it is worth. I have the new bills, just need to find the printer!

 

Here's the portrait for your alien money:

 

I would have to pay a fee to use it commercially. Don't want to cut the profits for the aliens.

 

Is there a link to the original?

 

Type 'Bradford Exchange' into your search/address bar.

 

I know that. I meant the original US government link to the Legal Tender status.

 

It's an over printed $2 note. It was originally printed by BEP, making it a legal tender note.

 

So it is not real after all. Thanks for the confirmation. Not sure why someone didn't just say that in the first place.

 

Underneath all of the glitz, it's a REAL $2 bill. It's legal tender. It's spendable at a value of $2. It was overprinted after leaving the US Bureau of Engraving and Printing, and the Federal Reserve Bank.

How hard is that to understand?

 

Why do you have to take such an insulting tone? It is not at all hard to understand.

All I was asking was for confirmation as it seems highly unlikely to me at it would be produced by the BEP. But the US Mint makes some commemorative coins which are so ridiculous that I could actually believe anything is possible at the BEP also.

 

The BEP didn't print it like that. The Bradford Exchange bought a number of fresh, new, crisp, normal, everyday, run of the mill, $2 bills from the bank and overprinted them.
Why would you think they came from BEP like that?

 

I the government can make concave disk shape coins which are meant only to fleece collectors and not circulate why can't they make colorized banknotes to do the same?

 

I give up.

 

Funny. That's what I was thinking, but I thought I would make one last effort at a reasonable discussion. Perhaps there is someone else who is interested in commenting without being so condescending.