Comments on: Federal Reserve Orders 7.6 Billion Banknotes for 2016

By: Munzen

Munzen — Tue, 27 Oct 2015 15:49:42 +0000

Ronnie: Our fantastically responsive and efficient Congress has legally forbidden making any changes whatsoever to the $1 bill. In addition they’ve acceded to Crane Paper’s lobbying efforts by putting roadblocks in the way of any serious effort to save money through wider use of $1 coins, even though the savings from using dollar coins and $2 bills would more than cover Crane’s lost monopoly profits with plenty left over for us taxpayers.

By: Whistler

Whistler — Mon, 26 Oct 2015 22:00:46 +0000

Can we say, inflation, $$ value going down like a lead weight with the #s they make…….but well supported & backed up by future Syrian Immigrant earnings…..

By: Joe

Joe — Mon, 26 Oct 2015 04:01:01 +0000

Hope they have the 30% there not replaceing.

By: RonnieBGood

RonnieBGood — Sun, 25 Oct 2015 22:09:12 +0000

You would think that the BEP would have added the security to the one dollar bill long ago. Forgery has been achieved by bleaching out the 1 bill (to use the special fibered paper) and then printing an older version of the $100 dollar bill on it.

By: Munzen

Munzen — Sat, 24 Oct 2015 19:15:16 +0000

Ed: Higher-denomination notes have modern anti-counterfeiting features (e.g. embedded UV strips, color-shifting ink, etc.) while the technology of $1 and $2 bills is essentially the same as it was in the 1920s.

That said, I’m both surprised and pleased to see the sharp increase in $2 bill production. It’s never made any sense to need up to four $1 bills for making change when it would be more efficient to use half as many twos. What we’ve got now is sort of like having only $10 and $50 bills but not 20s, or dimes and half dollars but not quarters (…. or 20¢ pieces, but after all we still have to maintain compatibility with Spanish milled dollars, haha!)

By: Dale

Dale — Sat, 24 Oct 2015 02:54:37 +0000

Mike
32000 2 dollar bills printed for 2015 ?

By: Ed

Ed — Fri, 23 Oct 2015 20:26:26 +0000

Why would 1’s and 2’s and cost so little and the larger notes cost more?

By: Mike Unser (CoinNews.net)

Mike Unser (CoinNews.net) — Fri, 23 Oct 2015 16:12:26 +0000

It’s billions… The BEP actually averaged a print run last year of nearly 25 million notes every day, according to their data.

I edited the table section headers above to better describe the quantities/values. Sorry, I should have done that from the start.

By: Steve

Steve — Fri, 23 Oct 2015 15:53:13 +0000

Umm, its Million, not BILLION…notes…