[vangndy]

Any way you could you copy and paste that article, i don't want to have to subscribe to another service....... is it that they were real $2 bills that someone thought were fake? forgive me if this assumption is incorrect, but from the posts here that would seem to be the case........



Was able to access the site from another link, am sorry to say that this isn't the first time i've heard of perfectly legitimate us currency being "determined" to be counterfeit....... The ignorance of some people is astounding, you'd be surprised how many times people have to stop and thoroughly examine a half dollar or anthony/ sacagawea because they have never seen them. Just recently a member of the soin collecting baord i visit whose wife works at a bank refused to accept a deposit of buffalo nickels because she thought they were canadian, the customer was able to sell the coins to collectors for much mnore than face. Also reminds me of another story where someone attempted to spend a $500 bill, it was at a casino if recall correctly, but refused, a collector happened to witness the attepmted transaction and was more than willing to give the man 5 $100's, and flip the note for about $800. Granted large denomination notes are very rare, and actively pulled from circulation by the fed, but they are still backed by the fed and should in theory be worth face to non-collector. Althouugh i can understand why $500 or $1000 would be refused as they are virtually not encountered by anyone unfamiliar with currency collecting, but i digress........