Is a 2.00 Bill bad luck?

Answer 1

Yes. To be safe, you should send them to me as soon as you get them.

Of course it's not "bad luck".

- More -Simply put, objects can't bring bad - or good - luck.

Many of the myths surrounding $2 bills date to the late 19th century. The denomination was issued regularly but by happenstance, that amount of money was a common price for both race-horse bets and prostitution in those pre-inflation days. More respectable citizens stopped accepting $2 bills because they were assumed to have been used at some point by racetracks and brothels, so the denomination fell out of favor. A myth grew up, especially among the less-educated, that the bills themselves had become tainted by their association with crime and simply touching them would corrupt the holder. For a while in the South it was actually common for people to tear off one corner of a $2 bill and hang it upside down to "let the evil drain out."

Of course there is no more truth to this than claiming that a piece of currency could be purified if handled by a member of the clergy, but the idea of "evil" $2 bills persisted long enough that the denomination lost favor and now makes up less than 1% of all bills in circulation. In contrast to to the US many other countries successfully use their equivalents of $2 bills or coins with no problems; it's just another denomination.