Taco Bell Tries To Bring Back $2 Bill

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So your thoughts? Think Taco Bell will be successful?

I dont think they will. I think it may make people aware there is a $2 to begin with and might start to hoard them & I think it might make some people a collector of currency but as far as mainstream use, I doubt it.

 

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I agree with you, people will probably start hoarding them. I do however think that bringing $2 bills back is a cool idea.

 

If Taco Bell decided to start handing out $2's in change as part of this ad campaign, *that* would make a difference. As it is, they don't seem to be doing that, so they'll likely wind up attracting attention to Taco Bell but not to $2 bills per se. (Which is, after all, the point....)

Still, props to Taco Bell for getting the 2006 date right in their press release. Half the time, even numismatic types don't realize that Series 2003A wasn't printed in 2003....

 

Isn't taco bell one of the places that had a guy arrested for using $2 bills at their restaurant a few years back???

Just seems funny if that's the case.


Edited to add a link I found about it... I guess the arrest was at Best Buy...

http://www.snopes.com/business/money/tacobell.asp

 

Then inflation kicks in,and Taco Bell will request a $3 bill to be made.

 

If so, then they can put Reagan on it

 

But they are giving away Taco Bell napkins with every purchase

 

There food is only worth is $2,:rolling: maybe they will start giving $2 bills for change in hopes that their customers return.

yo no quiero taco bell!

 

I think the toning you can put on your coin with those things is better than that $2 bill.

Seriously, non-collectors will go ape when they are in circulation and everybody and their brother will be hoarding them.
ALTHOUGH!

It may spark interest in money collecting...we could get some new newbies here at CT.

TACO BELL...DO IT!...DO IT!

 

Nah, when the tab totals $3, then you pay with two $2s and you get a $1 coin in change.

 

+1 :hammer:

 

if people do hoard, it'll be like the last comc book craze

 

I hope the 1976 $2 go to $10 or $20 for selfish reasons

 

I should get a few cases of their napkins, so when they inevitably switch to some other product, I can sell them for high prices.

 

Jim: They will!... After TB and customers damage the vast majority of them through their campaign. Hold tight to those ChCU notes you may have. It's stuff like this that reduces the quality of the masses of notes out there making those kept in care ever so slightly more special.

 

I read about this on Where's George?

I wonder if I could call the Taco Bell main headquarters and tell them to do the same thing with the half dollar, to attempt to get halves circulating, and minted for general circulation again, instead of just for collector reasons. Maybe vendors would upgrade for halves, and the ones that currently don't take $2s.

I could see the slogan : "Half Dollars: Cooler than a $1 bill. Bigger than a $1 coin. Twice as powerful as a Quarter"

(Sorry, but I felt I had to throw something in there about BOTH the $1 bill and the $1 coin. LoL)

 

Halves are the ****... I go to the bank for work way less since I started making my employees give them in change.

 

Well, don't get me wrong, I love the $1 coin, but it is my least favorite "Oddy" as I so call $2s, halves and $1 coins. But as long as the $1 bill is around, I don't care if the $1 coin circulates as much as I do the $2 bill and the half. The reason: While there is both a $1 bill and a $1 coin, there are no $2 coins or half dollar bills in circulation, and since those two denominations do not offer a "choice" I feel that they should be used more that the $1 coin, since most people (not me though) prefer $1 bills and as long as they are around, forget the $1 coin.

 

I just heard this on the radio today. I think it's a cool idea but I don't see it working.

 

While the Taco Bell incident in the mall is certainly plausible, I can't help but wonder if it wasn't made up to mimic a true incident that occurred in Baltimore a few years ago that gained national attention.

Baltimore Police were called to a McDonalds because a man was supposedly trying to pass a counterfeit $2 bill. The clerk and the manager both told police that the U.S. didn't make $2 bills, and the police agreed with them. Police transported the man to the station, showed the $2 bill to the duty sergeant and detained the man for several hours while Secret Service agents drove from D.C. to Baltimore. When the federal agents were shown the $2 bill, they asked what was wrong with it. The man filed a lawsuit against McDonalds and the Baltimore Police, and it was quietly settled out of court.

Chris