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The Federal Reserve Bank, maintains the quality and quantity of currency and coin in circulation, using state-of-the-art equipment to handle and process incoming and outgoing currency.

Each day the Minneapolis Fed processes $83 million of coin and currency (distribute $44 million, receive $39 million) and destroys about $3 million of unfit currency.

Currency

New $5 bill unveiled. September 20, 2007
The U.S. government today unveiled a new, more secure design for the $5 bill that will be issued and enter circulation in early 2008. Similar to recently redesigned $10, $20, and $50 bills, the new $5 bill incorporates improved, easy-to-use security features, making it easier for businesses and consumers to check the new $5 bills they receive and more difficult for counterfeiters to fake.
[Read the Press Release]

2008 Five Dollar Bill-Front

2008 Five Dollar Bill -Back

For informational materials on the new currency, including an interactive demonstration of the bill's security features, go to www.moneyfactory.gov/newmoney.

Other Currency
All U.S. currency is printed by the Bureau of Engraving and Printing (BEP). The BEP prints billions of Federal Reserve notes for delivery to the Federal Reserve System each year.

$50 bill

Security Features on U.S. currency include enlarged off-center portrait, watermark, fine-line printing patterns and color-shifting ink.

(Links are to the BEP unless otherwise noted.)

Fact Sheets: Currency & Coins

Fun Cash Facts, FED101

Know Your Money, U.S. Secret Service

Money Facts

Dollars and Cents: Fundamental Facts about U.S. Currency,
Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta

Frequently Asked Questions About United States Paper Currency

What To Do With Shredded or Mutilated Currency