It is very little known but there are around 1.2 billion of these specimens around the world.
He US 2 dollar bill It is so little known that many people still consider it illegal. But they were issued by the North American Federal Government in 1862 and are legal tender. In 2016, a minor girl in Texas was involved in a police investigation for trying to pay for her lunch with one of these bills, because they believed it was a fake one.
Originally, it bore the portrait of the first secretary of the treasury between 1769-1795, Alexander Hamilton. After 7 years, it was redesigned to carry the portrait of Thomas Jeffersonwho was the third president of the United States. And to this day that design remains in force.
2 dollars
This is the strangest bill ever designed by the US government.
In the back, The $2 bill has John Trumbull’s famous painting “Declaration of Independence” engraved on it.although it was modified in the second design due to lack of space. In the original drawing 47 people appeared, but 42 were included due to the size of the specimen.
There were issues in which Thomas Jefferson’s Virginia estate, Monticello, appeared. This happened in the editions that were issued between 1928 and 1976. After that year, a vignette of the declaration of independence signature was used and finally the current design was chosen.
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