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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lettow, post: 1992308, member: 6986&quot;]The only reason that the $2.00 FRN is still printed is because the Federal Reserve asks for them to be printed.</p><p><br /></p><p>The BEP and the US Treasury do not print Federal Reserve Notes on their own.&nbsp; They only print what is ordered by the FED.&nbsp; If the FED did not ask for $2.00 notes, they would not be printed.</p><p><br /></p><p>Printing Federal Reserve Notes does not cost the taxpayer directly.&nbsp; The Federal Reserve System is a customer of the BEP.&nbsp; They place printing orders and those orders are paid for by the FED.&nbsp; The printed notes are not sold to the FED at face value but are paid for based on a contract price negotiated by the FED.&nbsp; The FED&nbsp; budgeted in excess of $800,000,000.00 for printing from the BEP for FY2014.&nbsp; None of the direct cost of printing Federal Reserve Notes is attributable to the appropriations made by Congress for the BEP.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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