10 things you didn’t know about the $10 bill

17 November 2009 No Comment Homelessness , United Way News

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Fun facts about the $10 bill
1. The first U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, Alexander Hamilton is currently featured on the obverse of the bill, while the U.S. Treasury is featured on the reverse.
2. Hamilton is one of two non-presidents featured on currently issued U.S. bills. The other is Benjamin Franklin, on the $100 bill.
3. Hamilton is the only person featured on U.S. currency not born in the continental United States, as he was from the West Indies.
4. The source of the face on the $10 bill is John Trumbull’s 1805 portrait of Hamilton that belongs to the portrait collection of New York City Hall.
5. The $10 bill is the only U.S. paper currency in circulation in which the portrait faces to the left.
6. The first $10 bill was issued in 1860 as a Demand Note with a small portrait of Abraham Lincoln on the left side of the obverse and an allegorical figure representing art on the right.
7. The first modern anti-counterfeiting measures were introduced in 1990 with microscopic printing around Hamilton’s portrait and a plastic security strip on the left side of the bill.
8. Approximately 11 percent of all newly printed US banknotes are $10 bills.
9. The $10 bill has several nicknames, including: sawbuck, Hamilton, yellow, ten spot and x-note.
10. The “average life” of a $10 bill in circulation is 18 months before it is replaced due to wear.

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