Guildedagain
Enlightened Member
I have a few, saved them because they were cool. Quite a history the bill has.
"When the U.S. government began printing paper money in 1862, $2 was worth the equivalent of $60 today, so having a $1 note and a $2 note made sense. Later on, it just didn’t. But the “Tom” (so-called because Thomas Jefferson is printed on the front) was never very popular. It had a bad reputation from the start.
Supposedly, the bill was frequently used to pay for the services of s*x workers, leading to people calling it a “wh*re note” in the 1920s. Also: Race tracks of the ‘30s had $2 bet windows, and would pay out in $2 bills, so if you had a wallet full of “Dirty Toms,” you might be mistaken for a ne’er-do-well or a cad."
"When the U.S. government began printing paper money in 1862, $2 was worth the equivalent of $60 today, so having a $1 note and a $2 note made sense. Later on, it just didn’t. But the “Tom” (so-called because Thomas Jefferson is printed on the front) was never very popular. It had a bad reputation from the start.
Supposedly, the bill was frequently used to pay for the services of s*x workers, leading to people calling it a “wh*re note” in the 1920s. Also: Race tracks of the ‘30s had $2 bet windows, and would pay out in $2 bills, so if you had a wallet full of “Dirty Toms,” you might be mistaken for a ne’er-do-well or a cad."