Engraving and Printing, Bureau of, designs, engraves, and prints the paper money issued by the United States government. The bureau also makes commissions, certificates, permits, and internal revenue and customs stamps. It produces hundreds of other kinds of U.S. government security documents as well, including Treasury bills, bonds, and notes. The bureau also works with other federal agencies. It helps them design and print documents that require safeguards against counterfeiting. These documents include military identification cards and other items.
The bureau is a division of the Department of the Treasury in Washington, D.C. It is the world’s largest printer of security documents, producing many billions of items each year.
Congress passed legislation authorizing the bureau’s work in July 1862. A director appointed by the secretary of the treasury heads the bureau.
See also Money.
