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<p>[QUOTE="Drago the Wolf, post: 1229392, member: 22476"]Hey,</p><p><br /></p><p>My brother has a coin and currency book somewhere that I read years ago, and one of the questions was "Has the U.S. ever introduced a $3 Federal Reserve note?" and the answer was, no, but they originally had plans to do so. So does anyone have any idea "why" the Treasury dropped the idea to issue $3 bills? Did they just figure it would not circulate? I know a $3 bill would be worse off than the $2 bill, but someone once told me that horse tracks would love a $3 bill so they could raise their minimum $2 bets to $3. $3 bills would make a nice numismatic collectible and it would be neat if they would have also printed a few for general circulation, for those who wanted to clown around. I probably looked like a fool, but I once emailed a Congressman years ago about ressurrecting the government's original plans to print $3 bills, but I guess I wasn't thinking what a dumb idea it was back then, or was it....? :rollling:[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Drago the Wolf, post: 1229392, member: 22476"]Hey, My brother has a coin and currency book somewhere that I read years ago, and one of the questions was "Has the U.S. ever introduced a $3 Federal Reserve note?" and the answer was, no, but they originally had plans to do so. So does anyone have any idea "why" the Treasury dropped the idea to issue $3 bills? Did they just figure it would not circulate? I know a $3 bill would be worse off than the $2 bill, but someone once told me that horse tracks would love a $3 bill so they could raise their minimum $2 bets to $3. $3 bills would make a nice numismatic collectible and it would be neat if they would have also printed a few for general circulation, for those who wanted to clown around. I probably looked like a fool, but I once emailed a Congressman years ago about ressurrecting the government's original plans to print $3 bills, but I guess I wasn't thinking what a dumb idea it was back then, or was it....? :rollling:[/QUOTE]
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