The Two-Dollar Bill Never Actually Went Extinct

Millions of Americans treat the two-dollar bill as an extinct curiosity, stashing them in scrapbooks or refusing them as counterfeit. In reality, the Federal Reserve still regularly orders and prints them, with over 1.4 billion notes currently in circulation worldwide. Because people hoard $2 bills as lucky novelties instead of spending them, they rarely flow through cash registers—creating a self-fulfilling illusion that the currency is no longer in production.

Sources

• $2 Noteuscurrency.gov ↗
• Currency in Circulation: Volumefederalreserve.gov ↗
• United States two-dollar billWikipedia ↗