American money is the world's reserve currency and is valued all over the world, despite the fact that its gold backing is highly questionable. The dollar is also one of the most secure banknotes; every detail is verified during production, including the weight of each bill.
Many people are interested not only in the origin of monetary units, but also in their physical parameters, such as weight, size, etc. The most interesting is the one hundred dollar bill of the American states, or as people like to say - 100 bucks.
The history of money in America is no less fascinating than in Russia, but for more than half a century, Americans, despite the huge amounts of transactions of some companies and individuals, have been able to keep the production of banknotes at the same level. For the calculation, about 10 bills are used, of which the $ 100 from 1969 is the largest at face value. She is the most common.
Kind of 100 dollars
An ordinary bill has the following dimensions: 157 millimeters long and 67 millimeters high.
One side depicts the great scientist, diplomat and publicist Benjamin Franklin. His portrait was put on the banknotes for a reason, because it was Benjamin who advocated the distribution of paper money and more than once appeared with articles on this topic in front of the public. And so in 1914, his profile first graced $ 100.
Nearby is the seal of the Federal Reserve System, and above it are numbers and letters that indicate the bank that issued this banknote.
On the right side of the portrait there is a special green seal belonging to the State Treasury. This is his sign, which is used as one of the degrees of protection of the banknote.
But on the other side of the bill, the Palace of Independence is depicted, in the right corner there is the number of the cliché of the bill. It never repeats itself.
Banknote parameters
Inquisitive minds have calculated on the basis of these data how much the "American Dream" will cost at a cost of 10 million. Considering that the packs of a million will consist of 100 dollar bills, the total weight will be as much as 10 kilograms.
The physical parameters of American banknotes have remained unchanged for decades. Electronic scales, set according to the standard, showed that a 100 dollar bill weighs exactly 1 gram, and a bank pack consisting of 100 banknotes of this denomination weighs exactly 100 grams.
This experiment is repeated periodically by the curious, as well as by representatives of the national reserve system, but the result is unchanged, and therefore even the weight of the notes can be considered one of the elements of their protection.
However, many argue that the denomination of the banknote does not matter, and any banknote of the Bank of America will weigh exactly 1 gram. There is logic in this. After all, the paper from which all banknotes are made consists of more than 75% cotton thread, and the remaining percentage is taken by linen threads.
