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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.
Abraham Lincoln was portrayed on the 1861 $10 Demand Note; Salmon Chase, Lincoln's Secretary of the Treasury, approved his own portrait for the 1862 $1 Legal Tender Note; Winfield Scott was depicted on Interest Bearing Notes during the early 1860s; William P. Fessenden (U.S. Senator and Secretary of the Treasury) appeared on fractional currency ...
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 ...
As of May 30, 2009, only 336 $10,000 bills were known to exist, along with 342 $5,000 bills, 165,372 $1,000 bills and fewer than 75,000 $500 bills (of over 900,000 printed). [12] [13] Due to their rarity, collectors pay considerably more than the face value of the bills to acquire them, and some are in museums in other parts of the world.
The Treasury Department announced plans to unveil a new ten dollar bill in. For the first time in more than a hundred years, a woman's face will appear on American paper currency -- and Twitter ...
The first ten-thousand-dollar bills were issued as large-size paper money measuring 7.38 in (187 mm) by 3.18 in (81 mm) and portrayed Andrew Jackson.Beginning with the 1928 series, the size of the bill was reduced to the small-size variety measuring 6.14 in (156 mm) by 2.61 in (66 mm).
Made in 1929 and 1934, these $5 and $10 bills have brown seals and the name of the issuing bank. They might be worth three to four times their face value, or thousands of dollars, OldMoneyPrices ...
$10 reverse 1993 Nellie Melba: 1861–1931 International opera soprano (1886–1926) $100 obverse 1996 John Monash: 1865–1931 General during World War I $100 reverse 1996 Andrew Barton "Banjo" Paterson: 1864–1941 Poet; author of "Waltzing Matilda" (1895) and "The Man from Snowy River" (1890) $10 obverse 1993 Mary Reibey: 1777–1855 ...