Today was our last day of the tour. We had our best breakfast so far. Hotels and food improved as the days passed. Our first stop of the day was the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. This is one of the two buildings dedicated to print paper currency in the US; THE other is located in Dallas. In a typical year the bureau prints 33 million notes a day with a face value of $529 millions. Ninety five percent of the paper currency printer goes to replace previous notes. Approximately 54.8 % of the notes printed are one dollar bills, the current size of the paper and the faces in each of the bills were established in 1929. There are 9 different designs ($1, $2, $5, $10, $20, $50, $100, $1000, $5000 and $100,000), however since
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