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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ewomack, post: 25581732, member: 15588&quot;]The poor $2 bill. When they did circulate more widely in the mid-20th century, they were considered bad luck, so people would tear their corners off to &quot;repel&quot; the curse. I had never seen this phenomenon in person until I inherited a pile of old bills from a now long deceased relative. Amongst an assortment of some pretty decent mid-20th century bills sat the sad torn 1953 $2 below with all its corners missing. Another one in the same pile had just one corner torn. I&#039;m not sure why those particular torn examples were packed away with the others.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1637883[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Now the poor $2 bill suffers from outright neglect and abuse. No one believes it actually exists, apparently including whoever created that scanning machine mentioned in the OP. Not only that, as discussed on this forum in the past, a few people using $2 bills have even had the police called on them for attempting to pass a counterfeit. That&#039;s pretty insane. This type has gone into absolute obscurity, but yet a number of them still roll off the presses. So things have gone from bad to worse with the poor $2 bill. Sigh.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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