35 interesting dollar facts

  1. The Bureau of Engraving and Printing prints 16,650,000 dollar bills every day.
  2. 97% of all paper money contains traces of cocaine.dollar bills
  3. A dollar bill weighs approximately 1 gram and measures 2.61 inches wide, 6.14 inches long and .0043 inches thick.
  4. The average life of a dollar bill is just 18 months.
  5. The number 172 can be seen on the back of the U.S. $5 dollar bill in the bushes at the base of the Lincoln Memorial.
  6. Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple Computer, is said to use $2 notes from sheets of bills purchased from the U.S. Treasury – he apparently has them bound into book form with the bills as tear-off "pages".
  7. $5 bills last in circulation for around 15 months.
  8. $20 bills last in circulation for approximately 2 years.
  9. On the $1 bill the Latin above the pyramid, ANNUIT COEPTIS, means "God has favored our undertaking”
  10. The security thread and micro printing found in most currency today were first used in 1990 in the $50 and $100 bills
  11. At the base of the pyramid on the $1 bill you will find “1776” in Roman Numerals.
  12. The Latin below the pyramid on the $1 bill, NOVUS ORDO SECLORUM, means "a new order for the ages”
  13. In 1929, US currency was standardized to include portraits on the front and emblems and monuments on the back of all bills.
  14. Almost half, 48 percent, of the notes printed by the Bureau of Engraving and Printing are $1 notes
  15. 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, along with the back of the $1 Silver Certificate issued in 1896
  16. If you had $10 billion and spent $1 every second of every day, it would take 317 years for you to go broke
  17. The $2 bill was last issued in 2003
  18. You'd need to fold a bill of any denomination about 8,000 times (first forward and then backwards) before it will tear
  19. Most people save $2 bills, thinking they are rare and therefore valuable; they're actually worth... $2
  20. The dollar has 13 stars above the eagle
  21. There are 13 steps on the Pyramid
  22. There are 13 letters in ANNUIT COEPTIS
  23. E PLURIBUS UNUM contains 13 letters
  24. There are 13 vertical bars on the shield
  25. The top of the shield has 13 horizontal stripes
  26. You can count 13 leaves on the olive branch
  27. There are 13 berries on the olive branch
  28. The dollar bill also features 13 arrows and 13 hats
  29. A world record of $2,255,000 was paid in December 2006 for an 1890 $1000 United States Treasury note. The note features a portrait of Civil War-era General George Gordon Meade, who commanded Union Army troops at the Battle of Gettysburg.
  30. The front of a $1 bill is printed in black ink and the back in green ink. This is why $1 bills are often called "greenbacks."
  31. Pocahontas appeared on the back of the $20 bill in 1875.
  32. Every dollar bill is labeled with letters and numbers showing which plate the bill was printed on and where on the plate the bill was located..
  33. Money isn't made out of paper, it's actually made out of linen
  34. High-denomination bills ($500-$100,000 notes) are technically legal tender, but were last printed in 1945 and officially discontinued on Jul 14, 1969 by the Federal Reserve System
  35. In 75% of American households, women manage the money and pay the bills.
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