![]() ![]() It’s fair to say that not as much skill is required for printing Monopoly money, although there is still some serious technology involved in printing such high volumes of the money. It’s a very carefully monitored manufacturing process with extremely skilled workers involved in creating banknotes that are exceptionally hard to counterfeit. There are facilities in Washington DC and in the aptly-named Fort Worth, Texas. Meanwhile, the US dollar is printed at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. The board game used to be printed in Hasbro’s main Massachusetts factory, but the company has since sold this. It has various factories around the world. Hasbro, the company that owns Monopoly, prints all Monopoly money. Coincidence? Or the Federal Reserve is just trolling. And there does seem to be some grain of truth, although the post definitely enhanced the colors in the banknotes. There was a fun story fed by a Reddit post that the newer US banknotes released in 2003 were made to match the Monopoly money colors at the time. And the orange used for $500 is now darker than it used to be. $20 bills used to be a darker shade of green. ![]() The colors of Monopoly banknotes have changed slightly over the years. There are seven different colors of Monopoly money, one for each denomination. Monopoly money denominations How many colors of Monopoly money are there? Despite rumors (and the story of a Simpsons episode), there has never been a $1,000,000 bill issued. Previously printed notes in the United States included the $500 and the $1,000, as well as the $5,000 and $10,000 bill. In the US, the denominations are similar, with the addition of $2 bills, and there are no banknotes worth over $100. Some versions have a $1000 bill but this isn’t in Classic Monopoly. Monopoly money and real money denominations Generally, Monopoly money tends to edge it. Most years, the UK averages between 6 and 15 billion Pounds Sterling printed each year, but it has gone up to 33 billion in some years. When you compare Monopoly money and the British pound, it’s a real close run. It’s highly probable that more than 30 billion was printed in one year to replace old notes. While the country hasn’t published stats on how many rupees were printed each year, there are estimated to be more than 28 trillion rupees in circulation as banknotes. China is one example – it printed 9.62 trillion yuan in 2021. While many countries don’t reveal the amount printed, there are several countries that do print more money than the manufacturers of Monopoly each year. Monopoly money is not the most printed currency. Is Monopoly money the most printed currency? ![]() But if you look at the cold, hard facts, despite fake ‘facts’ online then there is more real money printed each year in the United States than Monopoly money. Of course, there’s no way of knowing how much Monopoly money is destroyed or trashed each year, so it’s not an easy statistic to compare.Įither way, there is a lot of real money, and a lot of Monopoly money, printed on an annual basis. You could make the argument that more ‘new’ Monopoly money enters the world, since much of the real money being printed is to replace old notes that are taken out of circulation.Īccording to the Federal Reserve, currency in circulation increased by $212.8 billion dollars between June 2020 and June 2021. The Federal Reserve states that over $310 billion will be printed in 2022, while Monopoly’s manufacturers were expected to print around $30 billion in Monopoly money over the same period. Officially, more real money is printed than Monopoly money each year, despite some websites claiming the other way round. Is more Monopoly money printed than real money?
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