What 12 cities are on a one dollar bill?

US $1 and $2 bills carry the seal of the Federal Reserve District that distributed the bill: Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Richmond, Cleveland, Chicago, St. Louis, Minneapolis, Atlanta, Kansas City, Dallas, and San Fransisco.

Higher-denomination Federal Reserve Notes printed before 1990 had similar seals. Today those bills carry a generic seal without the district's name and location; the district is indicted by a code letter and number repeated in several places on each bill: A and 1 = Boston, B and 2 = New York, etc.

Despite many popular misconceptions, US bills are notprinted by each district. All bills are produced at printing facilities in Washington and Fort Worth. When there's a demand for a particular denomination in a given Federal Reserve district, its bank places an order for a set of bills to be printed and shipped for distribution. The printing plants are equipped to customize each order for the district that requested it.