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At the company I worked at gave a $2 bill when you applied for a patent. Thomas Jefferson was credited for establishing the USPTO. When I retired, I had a fair number of the bills which are now in a drawer.
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Pennies not legal to do it but there is more than a penny worth of scrap copper in each. |
I had a friend who found a good use for $2 bills. He and his wife would go shopping in little towns that still had downtown shops. This was before cell phones. He didn't like to shop, so he would get a paper to read on a park bench and give his wife a handful of $2 bills and told his wife to go shopping and he would find her when he was ready to go. When he was ready to go, he would simply walk up the street and ask at various stores whether they had seen a lady spending $2 bills. He would follow her trail until he found her. That was when $2 would buy more than 1/2 Dozen eggs.
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I still have the one that I kept since the 80s. Didn't think you could order them from a bank for gags. Maybe I'll do that one day.
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I used to bring a bag of very old English pennies and half pennies over with us each winter we stayed in TV.
Used to give them to couples we were paired with on golf course as ball markers. Got a load of them still, and use tins full as doorstops! If you soak them in Coca Cola they come up like new. |
I lived in the Tidewater area of Virginia. Lots of military. One of the military bases were not feeling welcomed by the community. As the story goes, back in the day when the service men & women were paid in cash, the commanding officer ordered all the payroll to be paid in $2 bills. When the community was flooded in $2 bills he got a call from the mayor wanting to know what was up ? He then reminded the mayor of the economic impact his base had on the community.
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