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In 2011 it costs about a dime to print a $10 bill. The price used to be less than a nickel but has gone up due to new anticounterfeiting measures and an increase in the cost of cotton fiber used for the notes' special paper.

$1 and $2 bills cost less because they have fewer anticounterfeiting features, while it's expected that the new $100 bills will cost a bit more.

FWIW, a favorite trick question is "How much does it cost the US Mint to print a $10 bill?". The answer is ZERO, because the Mint only makes coins!

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