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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Numbers, post: 3844846, member: 11668&quot;]Some vending machines and self-checkouts *do* accept $2&#039;s.&nbsp; They rarely advertise the fact, but if you just try to insert a $2, it works surprisingly often.&nbsp; But currency-handling equipment at banks and the Fed certainly has to recognize $2&#039;s, and that&#039;s where a proliferation of commemorative designs would be likely to cause trouble.&nbsp; One redesign of the $2 could be done without too much trouble, just like the redesigns of the other denominations; but you were suggesting a whole series of commemorative designs, which could get more complex since it&#039;d put a large number of designs in circulation simultaneously.</p><p><br /></p><p>Most machines can obviously be updated to handle new designs, but there&#039;s a limit; the chip in the machine only has so much memory.&nbsp; Many vending machines no longer accept the old &quot;small-head&quot; currency, because they don&#039;t have enough memory to deal with three design generations at once.&nbsp; (And there are still a fair number of older machines that only recognize $1&#039;s and can&#039;t be reprogrammed; that&#039;s why the vending industry has been so opposed to redesigning the $1 bill in particular.)</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m not entirely sure how other nations handle commemorative banknotes, but I notice that the nations that issue them tend to have much smaller amounts of currency outstanding than does the USA, so that their central banks&#039; currency processing is probably a lot less automated than ours to begin with.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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