“He who sits in a game of chance with a two-dollar bill in his pocket is thought to be saddled with a jinx,” the New York Times said in a 1925 article. “They have been avoided as ill-starred.

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He rarely gets any press for being on the two-dollar bill. But last week, his face got a lot of it after Heritage Auctions sold a $2 note from 2003 with a low serial number for $2,400, which was ...