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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Collector1966, post: 1905115, member: 17919&quot;]Two-dollar bills got a bum rap in the US because of superstition. At race tracks, $2 was usually the minimum bet (paid with a $2 bill, perhaps), and of course most of those bets were losers. So $2 bills were &quot;unlucky&quot;. Also, another name for &quot;two&quot; is &quot;deuce&quot;, which is also another name for &quot;the devil&quot;. So people would tear off a corner of a $2 bill to either ward off bad luck, or ward off the devil. If they got one in change, they might want to get rid of it as soon as possible, just in case. It all seems kind of silly now, but that&#039;s how it was explained to me back in the 1960s.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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