Legal Tender Confusion
Since the $2 bill makes up such a small percentage of paper money in circulation, the public sometimes mistakes $2 bills for being counterfeit when used in financial transactions. There have been cases where arrests have been made, with the Secret Service later stepping in and stating that the bills are in fact legal tender.
Read more about this topic: United States Two-dollar Bill
Famous quotes containing the words legal, tender and/or confusion:
“Hawkins: The will is not exactly in proper legal phraseology. Richard: No: my father died without the consolations of the law.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)
“Our interest’s on the dangerous edge of things.
The honest thief, the tender murderer,
The superstitious atheist.”
—Robert Browning (1812–1889)
“Of late the new “life philosophy” has shown a tendency to relapse into a bewildering confusion of logical and poetical means of expression.”
—Johan Huizinga (1872–1945)