Quick Facts

• JCM has validated more than $2.9 trillion (U.S.) since we introduced the bill validator to the gaming industry in 1995.
• JCM has more than 120 gaming licenses in North America.
• JCM currency validating equipment handles more than 80 different currencies.
• A stack of currency one mile high would contain more than 14½ million notes.
• Martha Washington is the only woman whose portrait has appeared on a U.S. currency note.
• If you had 10 billion $1 notes and spent one every second of every day, it would take you 317 years to go broke.
• The average lifespan of the $20 bill is two years.
• You’d have to double fold a dollar bill about 4,000 times before it would tear.
• When the Euro was first introduced, approximately 7.8 billion notes and 40.4 billion coins, together worth 144 billion Euro were put into circulation.
• The Principality of Andorra has no official currency.
• All Thai currency notes feature an image of the Thai king.
• The currency of El Salvador is the U.S. dollar.