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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Troodon, post: 497699, member: 4626&quot;]I&#039;ve heard that theory before, as well as theories that they were used a lot in strip clubs.&nbsp; Not sure if it was ever the case that people used it for certain things they&#039;d rather people not know about more than other denominations were used.&nbsp; But you&#039;d think if they&#039;d want to keep such things secret, they wouldn&#039;t use any one particular denomination more than others; doing so would draw attention to the very activity they&#039;re trying to keep secret.&nbsp; Besides, even if some people did use it for such things, there&#039;s no proof that any one person holding it now did (after all the people who spent it for such things would no longer have them obviously, because they already spent them!)</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve also heard theories that some people considered them unlucky.&nbsp; Certainly possible that some did, all kinds of people believe all kinds of things after all, but I&#039;ve never heard of any evidence that it was a widespread enough belief to account for how little $2&#039;s get used.&nbsp; I&#039;m more inclined to apply Occam&#039;s Razor (all other things being equal, the simplest explanation that can account for the known facts tends to be the correct one) and go by the &quot;$2 bill just ceased to be considered practical&quot; explanation myself.&nbsp; It&#039;s pretty much the same reason that half dollars are so little used in circulation now.</p><p><br /></p><p>Interestingly enough Japan has had a similar experience with the 2000 yen bill (though it&#039;s only been around since 2000).&nbsp; It was issued to commemorate the 2000 G8 summit held in Okinawa, but it is legal tender and was originally meant to be a practically circulating bill.&nbsp; However vending machines wouldn&#039;t accept it, and most merchants didn&#039;t have room for it in cash drawer; many would even refuse to take it as payment.&nbsp; It&#039;s now extremely rare to actually see one in circualtion, and usually encountered only at banks and post offices.&nbsp; Usually only collectors and tourists will even ask for them.&nbsp; There is a rumor that some consider it unlucky, but again with the $2 bill in the US it&#039;s likely not a widespread enough belief to account for it&#039;s tiny circulation; the more likely explanation is it&#039;s just considered an inpractical nuisance and thus not used much.&nbsp; Unlike the $2 bill in the US though, it was never considered practical.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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