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The United States ten-dollar bill (US$10) is a denomination of U.S. currency.The obverse of the bill features the portrait of Alexander Hamilton, who served as the first U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, two renditions of the torch of the Statue of Liberty (Liberty Enlightening the World), and the words "We the People" from the original engrossed preamble of the United States Constitution.
The U.S. Dollar has numerous discontinued denominations, particularly high denomination bills, issued before and in 1934 in six denominations ranging from $500 to $100,000. Although still legal tender, most are in the hands of collectors and museums. The reverse designs featured abstract scroll-work with ornate denomination identifiers.
Although they remain legal tender in the United States, high-denomination bills were last printed on December 27, 1945, and were officially discontinued on July 14, 1969, by the Federal Reserve System [10] because of "lack of use". [11] The lower production $5,000 and $10,000 notes had effectively disappeared well before then. [nb 1]
The $5 and $10 bills will get big changes as well, according to a press release from the Treasury Department. While Hamilton will remain on the front of the bill, the new $10 will honor heroes of ...
Speaking of Benjamins, collectors will be especially keen to get fancy numbers of the long-delayed new hundred-dollar bill. So the first time you get your hands on one of the redesigned hundreds ...
A ten dollar bill or ten dollar note is a banknote denominated with a value of ten dollars and represents a form of currency. Examples of ten-dollar bills include: Australian ten-dollar note; Canadian ten-dollar bill; Hong Kong ten-dollar note; New Zealand ten-dollar note; United States ten-dollar bill; Ten dollar bill may also refer to:
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Alexander Hamilton, who has been featured on the $10 bill since 1929, is making way for a woman. Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew is to officially announce Thursday that a redesign ...
Emerich Juettner (January 1876 – January 4, 1955), also known as Edward Mueller or Mister 880, was an Austrian-American immigrant known for counterfeiting United States $1 bills and eluding the United States Secret Service for a decade, from 1938 to 1948. [1]