2美元的账单已经存在了160多年，但您可能从未见过。

只要美国印刷纸币，美国就可以生产2美元的钞票，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.

唐纳德·特朗普总统要求财政部停止造成新的便士，他认为这是浪费的。政府效率部（DOGE）已将自己的视线设置在单美分的硬币上，并且关于一分钱的价值和重要性有一些辩论。但是，讨论引起了另一个低价值的货币：2美元的账单。

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美元的账单已经存在了160多年，但是您可能从未见过。通常被认为是一种可收藏品（或者对某些不幸的），它们并不常用。收银机通常甚至没有在勒索中占有一席之地。

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

但是，有超过十亿的发行量，有可能更多的途径。

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.

那么，为什么还在美国打印2美元的账单呢？最简单的答案就是它仍然是法定招标，但法案不仅仅是眼睛。

16 decades and counting — except for that short break

16年和计数 - 除了短暂休息

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解释说，美国只有在1862年印刷了纸币，就一直在生产2美元的账单。但是，从1966年到1976年，美联储停止打印新的2美元以应对需求和使用的衰落，CNB St. Louis解释说。

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.

预计该法案的返回将增加利息和使用，但根据CNB圣路易斯的说法，人们开始收集它们而不是花它们。很难抗拒收集新的$ 2s，尤其是当美国邮政服务在4月13日（返回当天）邮票时。

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

有多少$ 2钞票流通，还有多少张账单？

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，已经有大约16亿美元的流通账单。为了进行比较，大约有24亿美元的账单和25亿美元的流通账单。

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.

对于所有货币，打印订单每年都会提交雕刻和印刷局，以估算满足美国和国际客户需求所需多少货币。这可以进一步基于已经可用的货币量，使用趋势以及更换了多少磨损的笔记。

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.

美国货币教育计划的2017年播客剧集解释说，这是后者的大部分订单。

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.

正如情节所指出的那样，不必每年订购2美元的账单 - 董事会在2013年，2017年，2018年，2018年，2020年和2023年订购了零2美元的账单，部分原因是在过去的几年中，已经印刷了足够的印刷。

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.

缺乏需求也减少了经常打印2美元账单的需求。想想您上次遇到2美元的账单。您是作为常规交易的一部分而花费的，或者从某种意义上说，将其作为礼物或自己收集来取消流通。

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的费用越少，从钱包到现金寄存器到银行，再一次，他们所经历的磨损越少，因此需要补充供应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，美联储的最新印刷订单显示，今年可能会印刷300720万至4.16亿美元的新$ 2钞票。

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

打印2美元的账单要多少钱？

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，与一分钱不同，美国印刷2美元时不会“损失”钱。美联储的最新报告显示，每本注释的费用为3.2美分，低于生产一分钱的近4美分。据美联储称，这一费用包括纸张，墨水，劳动力和“直接间接费用”以打印2美元的账单。

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美元账单的可变成本相同。赚取20美元的钞票（每张票据6美分）的成本大约是两倍，而打印$ 100钞票9.4美分的价格几乎是每张钞票的三倍）。

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,

大约3美分的票据，打印已订购的新2美元账单的数量约为9.8304亿美分和13.31亿美分。不要以美分说话？打印新的2美元账单约为983万至1,330万美元。为了进行比较，堪萨斯城酋长特拉维斯·凯尔斯（Travis Kelce）上赛季签下了两年，$ 3425万美元的交易，堪萨斯城酋长队的紧张局面起价为2000万美元。