Quiz
1. When did the U.S. Treasury first print paper money?
2. What is U.S. paper money made of?
3. Whose portrait appears on the two-dollar bill?
4. In 1929, the size of U.S. paper money was
5. About what percentage of bills printed every year are one-dollar bills?
6. How are the images on U.S. paper money created today?
7. What make of car is pictured on the back of the old ten-dollar bill?
8. What is the largest bill currently in circulation?
9. What is the largest bill ever printed?
10. Every day, the Bureau of Engraving and Printing produces 38 million paper bills with a face value of about $541 million. Why?
1. When did the U.S. Treasury first print paper money?
1862
2. What is U.S. paper money made of?
75 percent cotton, 25 percent linen
3. Whose portrait appears on the two-dollar bill?
Thomas Jefferson
4. In 1929, the size of U.S. paper money was
Reduced by about one third
5. About what percentage of bills printed every year are one-dollar bills?
50 percent
6. How are the images on U.S. paper money created today?
Hand-engraving on steel plates
7. What make of car is pictured on the back of the old ten-dollar bill?
A car made up by the artist
8. What is the largest bill currently in circulation?
$100
9. What is the largest bill ever printed?
$100,000
10. Every day, the Bureau of Engraving and Printing produces 38 million paper bills with a face value of about $541 million. Why?
To replace worn-out money