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COMMEMORATIVES CAUSE CONFUSION

uring the United States’ bicentennial celebration citizens began hoarding the ill-timed 2-dollar Federal Reserve bank notes on which the signing of the Declaration of Independence appears on the reverse. Some people stashed them away thinking they were commemoratives (which they were not), while others (to this day)

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