Why is paper money printed on green paper?
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The paper is really a blend of linen and cotton and is not green.  It has red and blue fibers, of different lengths, running through it and the printing ink is green.  For more "trivia" please see:\nhttp://www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0774850.html
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The biggest use of which I'm aware for magnetic ink is the printing at the bottom of a check.  This generally includes the bank's routing number, the account number, and the amount for which the check is written (used to be put on by data entry operators when I worked at the Federal Reserve Bank back in the 70s - may be automated now...).  The coding on the checks enables them to be processed by computerized sorting machines, rather than having to be done by hand - not a viable proposition when a bank handles a couple million checks in a day.
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I was wondering about this earlier today.  I think we're stuck with paper for quite a while since it's so cheap, but it's conceivable that we would eliminate it relatively soon.  Personally, I really like the idea of having something tangible in my hands with real pages that I can turn.  I was reading some Shakespeare today and I thought, "Wow, if I had a palm pilot, I could just download the text to it and I wouldn't have to waste paper or latch myself to my computer."  So what if one day we all went around carrying big sheets of plastic folded up like newspapers and whatever we wanted to read we could download to them?  Scientists are working on creating cheap, thin, clear "screens", so it's not entirely science fiction.  Paper will probably be around for a long time, but I think it would be interesting to look up whether paper waste has gone down even in recent years just with the popularization of the internet.
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No way how can any country let alone USA give the rights to print the money for other countries. Thats in no way possible. That kind of a thing will affect the security and the economy of the country . So my answer is a Big NO
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The small print can make a big difference.  The finance company through which the card is issued is more important to evaluate than the type of card itself.  I believe you have to evaluate the contract and READ IT for the charges and conditions.
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Probably not the act of photocopying. You can see pictures of money on all kinds of sites, even the government. It is when you try to pass off the photocopy as real money that gets you in trouble.\nGenerally the rule was the picture of the money couldn't be the same size as real money. The intent was to cut down on people cutting out the picture and then passing it as money. (it still happens)
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What's wrong with making labels out of paper?
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Because the matrices that hold the electronic parts that we call "chips" and "motherboards" (which are just really big, complex chips) are green. It's a computer reference.
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HSBC appears to be a bank and not related with paper manufacturing.  Please define the purpose of such paper.
193301
because money itself is not worth anything. It is just a symbol for perceived value.
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Well, if you would like to consider regular post via airmail here's what you do: make sure that you put the money (paper bills $) inside a carbon paper so that who ever will check to see if there's money inside won't see anything except for the paper which you used for your letter. We do this all the time :-)
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A physical difference in paper is the compression of fibers.\n\nRegular copy paper is usually 20-24 pounds.  Yet index paper (card stock) can be in the 90-110 pound range.\n\nTissue paper, parchment paper, construction paper, recycled paper, copy paper, inkjet paper, etc. will have various thicknesses.\n\nAdditionally there is a physical difference in brightness.  You will usually find a high quality laser paper is a brighter white than a recycled paper.
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cj,\n\nWhen paper was first used by one of the ancient civilizations, (think papyrus) it was very, very rare...very expensive.  The only folks that really used it was for government uses, as in recording laws and important uses like that.\n\nAs folks made strides in making paper more efficiently, the prices dropped to the point where common colk can afford them, so that's when books were made available to everyone...not just the rich folk.\n\nI can't answer your question, cj...waay back when, the time when people were writing on papyrus, bartering and trading was how folks paid for things...they may have had silver and gold pieces too, but the common man didn't carry those.
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Because if the government printed loads of money, inflation would go up and the economy would be ruined. \n\nIf only it was that easy...
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The amount of money is constantly fluctuating.\n\nEach country regulates its own currency.  If you print too much, the value of your currency will decrease.  The value of the money is based on the country's productivity.  The USA has the biggest GNP at $11.75 trillion.  A country's currency will go up or down in value based on the actions in that country.  If it prints more money, its value will drop in comparison to other countries that are not printing out more money.
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A house drawn on green paper.
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Only to the extent that having more colors in money makes it more difficult to counterfeit. So, if there is a huge amount of counterfeiting going on, then that country will experience high inflation and loss of buying power. If they then switch to colored money (as we did) then the counterfeit bills can be removed from circulation and the money supply will go back down to where it should be.