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Series 2004?[edit]

It is indicated on the front of the new ten dollar bill seen at http://www.moneyfactory.com/newmoney/main.cfm/currency/new10, that it is "Series 2004" when it in fact was released in 2006, wouldn't that make it series 2006? If anyone can give reasoning for this, please do.

--Zerhynn 16:36, 12 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

All bills have the date of the actual design change on them. Such as the 10 was changed in 2004, all tens issued until the next change will have 2004 on it. If you look at a one dollar bill, i believe the dates on should be no newer than 2001 or 2003, but they have been printed after that. Joe I 20:37, 12 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

New $10 bill[edit]

New 10 Dollar bill unveiled. Check it out here http://www.moneyfactory.com/newmoney/main.cfm/currency/new10

The back of the $10 bill since 1928 has had the Treasury building. This should make sense because this goes with Alexander Hamilton on the front. However, how about the large sized $10 bill printed from 1914 to 1928?? It had a different portrait, someone who never was a Secretary of the Treasury. You may use http://www.currencygallery.org as a reference tool. 66.32.69.241 14:14, 7 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Ronald Reagan on the $10 bill[edit]

There are several Internet sites that date to the spring of 2001 that talk about putting Ronald Reagan on the $10 bill. Does anyone know the current status?? [[User:66.245.67.150

16:43, 1 Jun 2004 (UTC)

According to one Internet site, it says that a person has to be dead for at least 10 years for their denomination to be on paper currency, thus it would have to be at least 2014. 66.32.129.167 13:48, 8 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Complete Revision of Article[edit]

I've thoroughly and completely revised this article. Hope this article helps paint a piece of history of the U.S. $10 bill. Please let me know if you have any comments about it.

--Kurthalomieu J. McCool 29 June 2005 03:30 (UTC)

Newer $10 bill[edit]

http://www.moneyfactory.com/newmoney/main.cfm/currency/new10#fed - Tεx τ urε 15:47, 28 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Why does the March 2, 2006 issue have 2004 on it? Esquizombi 04:05, 16 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

It's the series date, not the date it was made/first issued. --Kurt 08:30, 16 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! I wonder if Series (United States currency) should be linked from all the US__bill pages? Possibly each page should briefly go over all the features of the bill, or should the shared features be centralized on the dollar bill page? Esquizombi 09:09, 16 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

What does the series date actually mean?

On U.S. currency, the series refers to the year appearing on the front of a bill, indicating when the bill's design was adopted. The printed series year does not indicate the year a bill was printed, instead it indicates the earliest year that bills of the same design were first made. For example, Series of 1882 gold certificates were being printed as late as 1927.

Most designs are used for multiple years, the seris stays the same, where the signitures are what changes. Joe I 14:30, 5 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

== upside down flag ==

I have a 1950 ten-dollar bill with an upside down flag on it. Maybe this should be added.

I'll check back here on occassion to see if anyone has any comments. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.236.201.7 (talk • contribs)

For what it's worth, I was just here looking for information on the upside down flag and couldn't find any. -- Wdrev

Words in large print[edit]

 WHAT IS THE WORD BEHIND THE DEPT. OF TREASURY STAMP? IT IS THE WORD BETWEEN WE------PEOPLE.

uhm,... this is just a shot in the dark... but i'm thinking your mystery word is.... THE

why?[edit]

Why is Hamilton faciing left on the $10 bill while all other presidents on all other bills are facing right? He wasn't left handed or didnt have some horible scar. pls respond with real awnsers. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 137.85.6.104 (talk • contribs)

It's just circumstances. All portraits are based on real paintings of the time. --Kurt 05:58, 23 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Contradiction[edit]

This is about the physical size of the notes. Please discuss at Talk:Large-sized note. --ChoChoPK (球球PK) (talk | contrib) --ChoChoPK (球球PK) (talk | contrib) 08:31, 31 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

More info on redesign[edit]

This article is pretty lacking on details about the new 10s. The article on the 5 dollar bill talks about all the anti counterfeiting measures and new design features. I'm pretty surprised this got "B" article status with hardly any information on the current bill. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 167.7.17.3 (talk) 13:14, 10 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

bad source[edit]

um i just wanted to point out that the ONLY source listed doesnt lead anywhere... so im pretty lost here. also, why arent there any pictures of old tens? thanks —Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.3.66.59 (talk) 00:49, 3 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

John Muir[edit]

The introductory paragraph currently states: "In addition to this, Hamilton is one of only two persons featured on U.S. currency who was not born in the continental United States, as he was from the West Indies. The other, Kamehameha I, appears on the 2008 Hawaii state quarter.)"

I believe John Muir is depicted on the California commemorative quarter, and he was born in Scotland. 98.150.128.79 (talk) 09:14, 10 July 2011 (UTC)M[reply]

Color[edit]

Does anyone know the reason they chose the color orange for the recent redesign? Bostoner (talk) 19:09, 11 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Non-presidents on bills[edit]

"Hamilton is one of two non-presidents featured on currently issued U.S. bills." Don't doubt this for an instant. What about other non-presidents on bills no longer current? I can only find Samuel P. Chase (on the $10,000 bill, from 1928 to 1946, and other smaller denomination bills, including the $1, much earlier on) Moletrouser (talk) 23:31, 30 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

See List of people on United States banknotes--Godot13 (talk) 05:06, 6 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Foreign-born people depicted on banknotes[edit]

Correction made. Hamilton was not the only foreign-born person to be depicted on U.S. Banknotes. The following were added: Albert Gallatin, Switzerland ($500 1862/63 Legal Tender); George Meade, Spain ($1,000 1890/91 Treasury Note); and Robert Morris, England ($1,000 1862/63 Legal Tender; $10 1878/80 Silver Certificate). --Godot13 (talk) 05:06, 6 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Nicknames[edit]

This section isn't sourced but should be. Rklawton (talk) 18:59, 1 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

File:US-$10-LT-1901-Fr.114.jpg to appear as POTD[edit]

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Picture of the day

A 1901 series United States ten-dollar bill, a unit of the country's currency. On the obverse it depicts the explorers Meriwether Lewis and William Clark together with an American bison, and on the reverse is an allegorical figure of Columbia between two Roman-styled pillars. This large-size note measured approximately 72⁄5 × 31⁄8 inches (189 × 79 mm).Banknote: Bureau of Engraving and Printing (image courtesy of the National Numismatic Collection, National Museum of American History)

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Is this a reliable source?? If not, please explain[edit]

http://www.ky3.com/news/business/the-10-bill-is-up-next-for-a-new-look/21049046_31932642 Georgia guy (talk) 15:52, 22 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Size[edit]

The sizes of present US currency were stated in an info box in metric terms to six digits of precision. I doubted that the printing bureau ever stated such a precision, or that they regulated the cutters to slice the printed sheets into notes down to +/- .00005 mm for the height and .0005 mm for the width. I found the US government site https://uscurrency.gov/history-american-currency which states the dimensions as 6.14 inches by 2.61 inches, an achievable 3 digits of precision. I suggest that the dimensions of US currency in the infobox should be given in US units rather than metric units. This is not a science article, so metric units being standard for science is not convincing. I have no serious problem with leaving currency measurements metric, but I strongly object to implying the measurements are specified to 6 digits of precision, which is an artifact of mindlessly using a unit conversion program. Edison (talk) 21:37, 20 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Whoever wrote the banknote infobox template didn't make any provision for US units. You are right that this contradicts the MOS on the question of which units to use. Kendall-K1 (talk) 15:07, 7 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Does the Security Stripe Text always appear on the same face of the bill?[edit]

Regarding the most recent pictures of the $10 currency: little was said about the security stripe other than that it was there and that it was revealed by UV light. Is the writing always visible from the front face of the bill--or always visible from the rear face? Is this an important counterfeit issue? Perhaps showing what it looks like might be helpful for those without access to a UV light; just a thought (I have one, so it isn't an issue for me).

[I'd upload one myself but I'm having some hardware problems at the moment so I can only make the suggestion--but I'm very curious about about the front versus rear facing writing issue on the security strip. Not a word is said about it on the Treasury & BEP .gov sites. I looked--very thoroughly. Nothing.]

Joe Rosenman JoeRose50 (talk) 00:03, 5 June 2016 (UTC)JoeRose50 6/4/2016[reply]

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when was Alexander Hamilton added to the $10 bill?[edit]

essentially um

the wikipedia article doesn't mention it anywhere sir CelestialSasara (talk) 08:24, 29 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

They standardized the portraits in 1928. That was the first time he appeared on the $10 bill. I'll try and pull up a reference later today. Almostfm (talk) 17:54, 29 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Birth of this dollar[edit]

So, this $10 bill was created in 1861 ? --41.103.171.182 (talk) 21:06, 16 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

1861 was the first year the US government issued legal tender banknotes (though they weren't declared legal tender until the following year with the Legal Tender Act of 1862). While both the government and individual banks did issue banknotes prior to 1861, these were pegged to their face value in silver or gold coins and the banknotes themselves had not legal tender status. - ZLEA _T\^C 23:18, 16 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]