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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;scottishmoney, post: 1663678, member: 12789&quot;]It is a &quot;Legal Tender&quot; note, the first fiat currency issued by the Treasury beginning in 1862.&nbsp; Other than the good faith of the US government they had no promise to pay the bearer anything other than &quot;legal tender&quot; - but that didn&#039;t mean silver or gold.&nbsp; With the 1928 issue these LT notes were only the $1(very rare though and released only in Puerto Rico in the late 1940s) the $2 and the $5.&nbsp; These were issued until the Series 1963 notes(approximately 1966) and were dropped when the Treasury printed Red Seal Legal Tender $100 bills in 1966 and 1966-A.&nbsp; The latter are fairly scarce.&nbsp; I found one in a rural N. California bank back in 2005.&nbsp; The $2s and $5s show up often enough though, I have several dozen of each from 1928-63 in the last year from my banks.</p><p><br /></p><p>The corners were often ripped or snipped off with shears or scissors to &quot;break the bad luck&quot; on the $2 - people did and still do have some superstitions about them.&nbsp; I spend $2s all the time - have a wad of them in my wallet.&nbsp; Most people are pleased as punch to get them and will buy them out of the register etc.&nbsp; But occasionally you get someone that acts like you committed some perfidiously evil act by tendering a $2 in payment.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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