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Money and Banks

Paper Money

MATH

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Money and Banks

Paper Money

By Dana Meachen Rau

Reading consultant: Susan Nations, M.Ed., author/literacy coach/consultant

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Rau, Dana Meachen, 1971 Paper money / by Dana Meachen Rau. p. cm. ( Money and banks) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 1-4339-3383-7 ( lib. bdg. ) ISBN 1-4339-3384-4 ( softcover) ISBN 1-4339-3385-1 ( 6-pack) Paper money United States Juvenile literature. Dollar, American Juvenile literature. I. Title. II. Series. HG591. R32 2005 40440973 dc22 2005042204

New edition published 2010 by Gareth Stevens Publishing East 14th Street, Suite New York, NY 10003

New text and images this edition copyright 2010 Gareth Stevens Publishing

Original edition published 2006 by Weekly Reader Books

An imprint of Gareth Stevens Publishing

Original edition text and images copyright 2006 Gareth Stevens Publishing

Art direction: Haley Harasymiw, Tammy West Page layout: Daniel Hosek, Dave Kowalski Editorial direction: Kerri ODonnell, Barbara Kiely Miller

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Table of Contents

Buying with Paper

How Paper Money Is Made

History on Paper

Paper Money Up Close

Math Connection: Group It!

Glossary

For More Information

Index

Boldface words appear in the glossary

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Buying with Paper

Currency is the money people use to buy things they need and want. Coins and paper money are the two kinds of currency. You can use a dollar bill to buy many things. You might buy a drink or a snack. You might buy a sheet of stickers or a card for your friends birthday.

You can buy a small toy at the store with a dollar bill.

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Did you know that paper money is not really made of paper? It is made of cotton and linen. Cotton and linen are two kinds of cloth. They are also used to make some kinds of clothes.

When you look closely at a dollar bill, you can see small red and blue threads.

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Millions of people use paper money every day. Each bill is made to be very strong. A bill is so strong that it will not fall apart if it goes through the wash by mistake. Bills usually last about a year and a half. Some last much longer!

After they have been used by many people, bills get worn out.

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There are seven different kinds of paper bills. Each kind is worth a different amount. Some bills are worth a small amount of money. They are one-dollar bills, two-dollar bills, and ve-dollar bills. Other bills are worth more. They are ten-dollar bills, twenty-dollar bills, fty-dollar bills, and one-hundred-dollar bills.

Two-dollar bills are used the least of all the bills.

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How Paper Money Is Made

The Bureau of Engraving and Printing, or BEP, makes all paper money. It prints money in Washington, D.C., and Fort Worth, Texas. The BEP makes enough bills in one year to circle Earth more than times!

The Bureau of Printing and Engraving Building in Washington, D.C., was built in 1914.

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The BEP makes more one-dollar bills than other bills. That is because people use one-dollar bills the most. The one-dollar bill is black and green. Twenty-dollar bills and fty-dollar bills are peach and blue as well as black and green.

The twenty-dollar bill is more colorful than the one-dollar bill.

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How is paper money made? Workers at the BEP feed large sheets of paper into a machine called a printing press . The printing press works quickly. It prints thirty- two bills on each sheet of paper. Another machine cuts the paper into separate bills. The new bills are crisp and at.

You can take a tour of the BEP to watch bills being printed.

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History on Paper

When you look at a paper bill, someone is looking back at you! The front of every bill has a picture, or portrait , of a famous American. The backs of bills show famous buildings and symbols of America. George Washingtons portrait is shown on the one-dollar bill. He was the rst president of the United States.

George Washington was president of the United States for eight years.

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The two-dollar bill has a portrait of Thomas Jefferson. He wrote the Declaration of Independence . The Declaration of Independence is an important document in American history. The ve-dollar bill shows President Abraham Lincoln. He kept the United States together during the Civil War.

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