2美元的賬單已經存在了160多年，但您可能從未見過。

只要美國印刷紙幣，美國就可以生產2美元的鈔票，可追溯到1862年。

President Donald Trump has requested that the Treasury Department stop minting new pennies, which he sees as wasteful. The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has set its own sights on the one-cent coin, and there is some debate to be had about the value and importance of the penny. However, the discussion has brought attention to another low-value bit of currency: the $2 bill.

唐納德·特朗普總統要求財政部停止造成新的便士，他認為這是浪費的。政府效率部（DOGE）已將自己的視線設置在單美分的硬幣上，並且關於一分錢的價值和重要性有一些辯論。但是，討論引起了另一個低價值的貨幣：2美元的賬單。

The $2 bill has been around for more than 160 years, but it is possible you have never seen one. Often considered a collectible (or, to some, unlucky), they are not commonly used. Cash registers typically don’t even have a spot for them in the till.

2美元的賬單已經存在了160多年，但是您可能從未見過。通常被認為是一種可收藏品（或者對某些不幸的），它們並不常用。收銀機通常甚至沒有在勒索中佔有一席之地。

Nonetheless, there are more than a billion in circulation with potentially more on the way.

但是，有超過十億的發行量，有可能更多的途徑。

So why is the $2 bill still being printed in the U.S.? The simplest answer is simply that it’s still legal tender, but there’s more to the bill than meets the eye.

那麼，為什麼還在美國打印2美元的賬單呢？最簡單的答案就是它仍然是法定招標，但法案不僅僅是眼睛。

16 decades and counting — except for that short break

16年和計數 - 除了短暫休息

The U.S. has been producing $2 bills for as long as it has printed paper money, dating back to 1862. There was, however, a stretch of time from 1966 to 1976 when the Federal Reserve stopped printing new $2s in response to declining need and use, CNB St. Louis explains.

CNB St. Louis解釋說，美國祇有在1862年印刷了紙幣，就一直在生產2美元的賬單。但是，從1966年到1976年，美聯儲停止打印新的2美元以應對需求和使用的衰落，CNB St. Louis解釋說。

The return of the bill was expected to increase interest and usage but, according to CNB St. Louis, people instead began collecting them rather than spending them. It was hard to resist collecting the new $2s, especially when the U.S. Postal Service offered to stamp them on April 13, the day of its return.

預計該法案的返回將增加利息和使用，但根據CNB聖路易斯的說法，人們開始收集它們而不是花它們。很難抗拒收集新的$ 2s，尤其是當美國郵政服務在4月13日（返回當天）郵票時。

How many $2 bills are in circulation, and how many more to come?

有多少$ 2鈔票流通，還有多少張賬單？

As of 2023, there were already roughly 1.6 billion $2 bills in circulation. For comparison, there were about 2.4 billion $10 bills and 2.5 billion $50 bills in circulation.

截至2023年，已經有大約16億美元的流通賬單。為了進行比較，大約有24億美元的賬單和25億美元的流通賬單。

For all currency, print orders are submitted annually to the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, showing an estimate of how much currency is needed to meet the demand for customers in the U.S. and internationally. This can further be based on the amount of currency already available, usage trends, and how many worn-out notes are being replaced.

對於所有貨幣，打印訂單每年都會提交雕刻和印刷局，以估算滿足美國和國際客戶需求所需多少貨幣。這可以進一步基於已經可用的貨幣量，使用趨勢以及更換了多少磨損的筆記。

It’s the latter that accounts for the majority of the notes ordered each year, a 2017 podcast episode from the U.S. Currency Education Program explains.

美國貨幣教育計劃的2017年播客劇集解釋說，這是後者的大部分訂單。

As the episode notes, $2 bills don’t have to be ordered every year — the Board of Governors ordered zero $2 bills in 2013, 2017, 2018, 2020, and 2023 in part because, in the previous years, enough had been printed.

正如情節所指出的那樣，不必每年訂購2美元的賬單 - 董事會在2013年，2017年，2018年，2018年，2020年和2023年訂購了零2美元的賬單，部分原因是在過去的幾年中，已經印刷了足夠的印刷。

A lack of demand also reduces the need to frequently print $2 bills. Think about the last time you encountered a $2 bill. Were you spending it as part of a regular transaction or, in a sense, taking it out of circulation by giving it as a gift or collecting it for yourself.

缺乏需求也減少了經常打印2美元賬單的需求。想想您上次遇到2美元的賬單。您是作為常規交易的一部分而花費的，或者從某種意義上說，將其作為禮物或自己收集來取消流通。

The less a $2 bill circulates from wallets to cash registers to banks and around again, the less wear-and-tear they experience, making a need to replenish the supply less significant.

$ 2的費用越少，從錢包到現金寄存器到銀行，再一次，他們所經歷的磨損越少，因此需要補充供應量的重要性就降低了。

However, between 307.2 million and 416 million new $2 bills could be printed this year, the most recent print order from the Federal Reserve shows.

但是，美聯儲的最新印刷訂單顯示，今年可能會印刷300720萬至4.16億美元的新$ 2鈔票。

How much does it cost to print a $2 bill?

打印2美元的賬單要多少錢？

It is worth noting that, unlike the penny, the U.S. doesn’t “lose” money when it prints $2 bills. The most recent report from the Federal Reserve shows it costs 3.2 cents per note printed, less than the nearly 4 cents it costs to produce a single penny. That cost includes the paper, ink, labor, and “direct overhead costs” to print the $2 bill, according to the Federal Reserve.

值得注意的是，與一分錢不同，美國印刷2美元時不會“損失”錢。美聯儲的最新報告顯示，每本註釋的費用為3.2美分，低於生產一分錢的近4美分。據美聯儲稱，這一費用包括紙張，墨水，勞動力和“直接間接費用”以打印2美元的賬單。

The variable costs for $1 bills are the same. It costs roughly twice as much to make a $20 bill (6 cents per note) and almost three times as much to print a $100 bill 9.4 cents per note).

1美元賬單的可變成本相同。賺取20美元的鈔票（每張票據6美分）的成本大約是兩倍，而打印$ 100鈔票9.4美分的價格幾乎是每張鈔票的三倍）。

At roughly 3 cents a note, it could cost roughly 983.04 million cents and 1.331 billion cents to print the aforementioned number of new $2 bills that have been ordered. Don’t speak in cents? That’s about $9.83 million to $13.3 million to print new $2 bills. For comparison, the Powerball jackpot starts at $20 million, Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce signed a two-year, $34.25 million deal last season,

大約3美分的票據，打印已訂購的新2美元賬單的數量約為9.8304億美分和13.31億美分。不要以美分說話？打印新的2美元賬單約為983萬至1,330萬美元。為了進行比較，堪薩斯城酋長特拉維斯·凱爾斯（Travis Kelce）上賽季簽下了兩年，$ 3425萬美元的交易，堪薩斯城酋長隊的緊張局面起價為2000萬美元。