Informative Essay On Paper Money

The topic that will be discussed is the manufacturing of U.S money. All of the steps in the process of manufacturing money will be mentioned in the research. The materials of money will be discussed. The origins of the use of paper money in general will also be mentioned. I chose this topic because, everyday thousands of Americans spend money, borrow money, even donate money, so I was just curious on knowing how all of this money is manufactured. I hope to interest you on how our country’s currency is made. I intend to study the history of paper money so that I my know paper money developed over the course of time. These are the items that I plan on researching.

The use of money goes all the way back to 3000 B.C. when ancient civilization started to use metal coins. The use of paper money was originated by the Chinese during the seventh century. In the year of 1658, a Swedish man named Johan Palmstruck, brought about of the use of paper money for a Swedish bank. The United States started to use paper money because of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, which was in 1690. The use of dollar bills was not used until the 1760’s in Maryland. When the American Revolution was occurring, the Continental Congress wanted paper money to fund the war, but the British however started to counterfeit paper money drastically. Therefore the United States did not start to

use paper money until the middle of the 1800’s, and ever since then paper money has been a hug factor of the United States.
The materials to make a paper money is pretty complicated as you might think it is.

According to my research, money is made up of 75% of cotton and 25% linen. For the bill to be identified, it contains small particles of red and blue fibers which is dispersed all throughout the bill. Each U.S. bill consists of a thread that can only be seen when it is placed under light. The thread is called polymer security thread. The fascinating trait about this particular thread is that it cannot be printed by any other printer or copywriter. This is one of the methods that the U.S. government defends against counterfeit

money.
The process of making money starts with the everyday pants that you purchase. After pants have been made, the leftover scrap of cotton and linen is collected by U.S. bureaus to manufacture U.S. currency. Once all of the cotton is delivered to a bureau, the cotton is placed in big bunches in a big boiler that extracts waste, wax, and oils from the cotton. After the cotton is boiled, it is then place in a tub of water that washes any excess waste that may still be lingering in the cotton. The red and blue fibers are then placed in the cotton which will be scattered on the note (bill) to show the note’s authenticity. The cotton is then flattened down and sent off to another bureau that specializes in printing and designing the note.