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Corners Missing On $2 Bills

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 Posted 06/04/2015  3:17 pm Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add Nickels_rule to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
So what is the story on why so many $2 bills have missing, torn off, corners?
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 Posted 06/04/2015  3:29 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add bpoc1 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Never heard of this. Do you have a source for information noting the number of bills.
ie. hundreds, thousands ....... of bills with missing, torn off, corners?
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 Posted 06/04/2015  5:03 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Nickels_rule to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Thank you jbuck, very good information.


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Never heard of this. Do you have a source for information noting the number of bills.
ie. hundreds, thousands ....... of bills with missing, torn off, corners?


If you are speaking to me, no, I don't know how many hundreds or thousands there are with torn corners. I just recently got interested in currency and while browsing on ebay could not help but notice in many listings of $2 bills one or even more corner was torn off.
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the superstition goes That 2 dollar bills are bad luck so you tear off a corner to get rid of the bad luck and if you get a 2 dollar bill with all the corners gone you rip the bill in half.
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Thanks ckrakowski, I appreciate the information. Seems like the only bad luck I've had with them so far is when I bid on them and lose!
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The thing with this superstition, of course, is that banks will withdraw $2 notes with torn corners as being damaged, rather than re-issue them. Back when the superstition was commonly held, it helped make $2 bills even scarcer. That $2 bills tended to be thus "damaged" more frequently may have also led to the prejudice against the $2 bill from the banks, which has always been the main obstacle to getting the $2 more widely used.

Of course, it's now been a couple of generations since $2 bills were likely to be encountered in everyday commerce; a superstition needs to be based on a rare but not impossible occurrence if it is to propagate. There are far fewer people that believe this superstition now than there were back in 1950.
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I've heard the superstition, but another thing I learned recently was that bank tellers or people who handle cash would tear corners off to make sure that they found a two in a stack of ones, to prevent miscounting.

Scroll down to a video posted on April 30th:https://www.facebook.com/2dollarbillmovie/
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