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Interesting Monetary Trivia Part I
Interesting Monetary Trivia Part I
Here you'll find some interesting trivia facts about the money you spend and collect every day.
- The Bureau of Engraving and Printing produces approximately 38 million notes a day with a face value of approximately $541 million.
- The paper used to print currency is composed of 25% linen and 75% cotton--it is not actually paper! Red and blue synthetic fibers are distributed evenly throughout the paper as a security measure.
- "In God We Trust" was first put on coins in the Civil War but didn't make it onto all coins until 1955.
- 95% of the bills printed each year are used to replace bills already in circulation.
- If you were to stack a million $1 bills, it would be around 361 feet high.
- Counterfeiting money is a felony, convictions can result in prison sentences for as long as 15 years and fines of up to $15,000.
- The largest denomination currency note produced by the United States was the $100,000 gold certificate, series 1934. It was never intended for circulation--it helped facilitate monetary transfers between banks at a time when computers did not exist.
- Parker Brothers has printed more money for its Monopoly games than the Federal Reserve has issued in real money for the United States.
- Martha Washington is the only woman whose portrait has appeared on a U.S. currency note. It appeared on the face of the $1 Silver Certificate of 1886 and 1891, and the back of the $1 Silver Certificate of 1896.
- If you had 10 billion $1 notes and spent one every second of every day, it would require 317 years for you to go broke.
- If you have three quarters, four dimes and four pennies, you have $1.19. You also have the largest amount of money in coins possible without being able to make change for a dollar.
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