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US Currency budget for 2016 was 709M USD: https://www.federalreserve.gov/foia/files/2017currency.pdf https://www.federalreserve.gov/foia/files/2017currency.pdf
by synchrone 9y ago
US Currency budget for 2016 was 709M USD: https://www.federalreserve.gov/foia/files/2017currency.pdf https://www.federalreserve.gov/foia/files/2017currency.pdf
Ecological concerns aside, this puts a bit of a perspective on the overhead costs of maintaining a currency.
Fiat currencies require a stability of power of course, which is impossible to quantify.