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hello I'm Michael Lambert I'm the Associate Director with responsibility for the US currency program at the Federal Reserve [Music] at a reserve system consists of the Board of Governors right here in Washington DC and twelve district banks currency to us means the physical banknotes it's it's the actual some people call the bills we call them notes currency is the actual physical piece of paper that we the Federal Reserve Board issue to the public so today we're we're sitting in the boardroom and at the Federal Reserve Board and our job here at the board is to decide how much currency that that the public is going to need to order it from the Bureau and then we issue it by shipping it to the Reserve Banks so it's through the banks both the Federal Reserve Banks and the nation's X that we make our currency available to the public the Federal Reserve Board is the issuing authority so that gives us the legal authority to turn the pieces of paper that the Bureau of Engraving and printing produces into lawful money [Music] I'm Len only our deputy director of the Bureau of Engraving and printing I make sure that with printing the currency that is needed to meet better Reserve's demand I love the fact that we are producing something that touches Americans every day of their life this is Brian Thompson one of the designers at the beer Engraving and printing design of currency is done with a very specific purpose in mind we want to reflect the stability and security of the American economy in looking at the designers they are people who have a very high level of artistic talent because they're bringing in the artistic elements to the notes as well as the counterfeit deterrent features that we're adding to the note and they need to blend it together to make it a beautiful artistic element once the designers finish it it has to go to the engravers the portrait and gamers and all the engravers face a significant challenge because they are working in Reverse what you see him doing here is using a tool called a graver to etch out the steel from a plate he's using a series of dots dashes and lines to create a three-dimensional image that will give the touch and feel that is distinctive to United States currency the engraver makes a single image and it is replicated either in a 32 or a 50 note plate the plates are all nickel but in order for them to last in production and be smooth for ink wiping they are dipped in Chrome for a short period of time as well and that gives them a much harder surface so they will last for up to a million impressions what we have here is an actual hundred dollar working plate this is one of the place that will be hung on the press to produce a...