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April 1st
1778 At first he was not an evergreen - the banknotes were gray. But there was 1862-63gg party back side which was colored green. It seems to be a surplus of green paint were in New York printing company, which has been entrusted to the issue of banknotes. "Do not disappear as good" - decided zealous owners and let the paint stroke. Nicknamed the green backs, I mean "green backs" stuck immediately. And so it went. Standard view bills - on the front porotret on the back - a monument - was approved in 1929. By the way, the dollar was never a piece of paper - a mixture of cotton and linen fibers, silk fibers stitched. Hence its durability.
At present, the total amount of banknotes in circulation - about a trillion dollars
Salmon Chase - the head of the Supreme Court, the author of «in god we trust» in the bill and the first face on the dollar bill
1938