1. MONEY FUN FACTS
Money Talks

2. PAPER MONEY
Paper money is made by the Bureau of Engraving and
Printing. Coin money is made by the US Mint. Both of these
are part of the US Department of Treasury.

3. PAPER MONEY
Ninety-Five percent of the notes (paper money) printed each
year are used to replace notes already in, or already removed
from circulation.

4. TEN BILLION
If you had ten billion one dollar notes and spent one every
second of every day, it would take you 317 years to go broke!

5. DOLLAR BILL
The dollar bill lasts about twenty one months in circulation.

6. LARGEST
DENOMINATION
The largest denomination of paper money currently the
$100 bill.

7. $1
One dollar bills make up about 45% of all notes printed each
year.

8. PENNIES
In April of 2006, it cost 1.4 cents to produce one penny.

9. PENNIES
In 2008 there were about 5,419,200,000 pennies in
circulation.

10. EACH DAY
In 2008, the Bureau of Engraving and Printing made
approximately thirty eight million notes a day, totaling a
value of approximately $629 Million.

11. INK
There are approximately eighteen tons of ink used per day to
print paper in two facilities (Fort Worth, TX and
Washington DC).

12. US MINT
There are six US Mint facilities in the country, located in
Washington DC, Philadelphia, PA; West Point, NY; Fort
Knox, KY; Denver, CO; and San Francisco, CA.

13. COIN PRODUCTION
In recent years, coin production varied between eleven
billion and twenty billion per year.