FeedThis Is Legal Tender?
October 12, 2012 in Maurice Richard, Montreal Canadiens, Patrick Roy Tags: Maurice Richard, Patrick Roy dollar bill
Apparently these are legal tender in the U.S., according to the seller on eBay, who also has a Rocket dollar listed. I had no idea something like this would be allowed, and I’m sure most countries wouldn’t be crazy about it. In Russia for example, even the smallest mark on a ruble from a pen and stores won’t accept it.
But maybe I’m wrong. Maybe countries around the world allow celebrity faces on top of presidents. I don’t know. It just seems weird.
Here’s the description on eBay.
October 12th, 2012 at 1:32 pm
The guy’s gotta be lying.
October 12th, 2012 at 1:38 pm
HDS, I think so too. It can’t be.
October 12th, 2012 at 3:05 pm
not a chance in Hades….
October 12th, 2012 at 3:08 pm
now if it was say, Ken Dryden then maybe,
October 12th, 2012 at 3:55 pm
Doesn’t matter whose face is on the two dollar bill, most American stores or people wouldn’t accept it. They’re not used to it, so they don’t like it or trust it. They’ve been resisting attempts to add colour to their bills or to use coins.
October 12th, 2012 at 4:42 pm
Ah, good old resistance to change. Certain folk seem to specialize in it. I agree we’re all in that boat on some level (the deck, be it … the hold).
October 12th, 2012 at 4:55 pm
Had it been on a Canadian bill and you used it in the States or somewhere else, I could see one being able to use this. Everyone knows we’re a bunch of hockey nuts here so it makes perfect sense to have a hockey player on our money right?
So let me create a few phony 100s, I’ll send them to Dennis to print up in massive quantities since he won’t mind taking the heat if this goes belly-up and then we can go somewhere far away and trade it in for some other place’s legit money…then we can buy some mansions, travel, buy the Habs, etc. It’s a simple plan.
October 12th, 2012 at 9:27 pm
It’s a simple plan, Darth, til we reveal the Gomez prints.
October 13th, 2012 at 7:12 am
Legend has it that two dollar bills are bad luck and being a Christian nation, the USA is in essence a superstitious nation. Don’t touch a two dollar bill no matter who’s picture is on it.
October 13th, 2012 at 7:54 am
I heard there’s a sale on Ebay for three-dollar American bills featuring Gary Bettman’s face on the front – a bargain at only $100 for a dozen.
The guy with the Patrick Roy money might be using a removable sticker of Roy on top of Jefferson’s image. Perhaps this still make it legal tender.
October 13th, 2012 at 8:53 am
Danno, that’s brilliant. That must be what it is. Removable stickers! It never occurred to me.
October 13th, 2012 at 8:55 am
Hobo, I remember one time in New York when a store wouldn’t take a few Canadian coins from me. He looked at them like they were from Mars. I explained that they were just Canadian and were good, but no way did he want anything to do with them.
October 13th, 2012 at 10:08 am
Sequestered.