A Collection Of Random Facts About Money

• An average of 62 searches on How To Counterfeit Money are conducted globally on Google each day.
  (Good thing we sell counterfeit detection equipment.)    :)
   
• As of 2007 it now costs more than 1 cent to produce 1 cent.
   
• The portrait of Abraham Lincoln on the penny shows him facing to the right while all other portraits of presidents on U.S. circulating coins face left.
   
• In 1996, lotteries in North America awarded $52 million in prizes every day – that’s $36,000 every minute, 24 hours a day.
   
• In the 1940s minimum wage was $0.43 per hour.
   
• There are four cars and eleven light posts on the back of a ten-dollar bill.
   
• 45% of every dollar bill you have ever owned has been in a stripper's G-string.   (ewww)
   
• The 1934 USD $1000 bill featured President Grover Cleveland:
  
   
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