Weight Of 20 Dollar Bill

$20 Dollar Bill

Have you ever taken a 20 dollar bill out of your wallet and wondered how much it weighs?

What Does A $20 Bill Weigh?

Like all other US banknotes in circulation, the weight of a 20 dollar bill is approximately 1 gram or 0.03 ounces.

Featured on the front of the $20 bill is Andrew Jackson the seventh US president of the United States.

In 2009 out of all the notes produced by the US Bureau of Engraving and Printing (BEP), 9% were $20 bills.

If you were to stack 454 $20 bills on top of each other it would weigh roughly one pound.

Currently, there are more than 6 billion $20 bills in circulation.

The average lifespan of a $20 bill is around 2 years.

As with all notes produced, they are made up of 75% cotton and 25% linen and feature advanced security technology to combat counterfeiting.

According to the US government, one in every ten thousand bills will be counterfeit. There are roughly $44 million of fake currency in circulation.

~ Fun Fact ~
Altogether the word twenty appears 9 times on the $20 bill. 5 times on the front and 4 times on the back.

Resources
https://www.reference.com/science/much-20-bill-weigh-872976549ac56cdc
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_twenty-dollar_bill
http://www.wealthtechnology.com/resource-center/money/life-and-death-of-a-20-dollar-bill

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