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10 Dollars Federal Reserve Note; colored
| Issuer | Federal Reserve System |
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| Year | 2004-2021 |
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| Value | 10 Dollars (10 USD) |
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| Reverse description | Pale orange-tan underprint with deep green intaglio print; central vignette of the U.S. Treasury Building rendered in fine-line engraving. Denomination and country legends appear above and below the architectural vignette. |
| Reverse lettering | THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA IN GOD WE TRUST U.S. TREASURY TEN DOLLARS |
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The 2004 series marked the first significant redesign of the $10 note since 1929, introducing background color washes — a deliberate move by the BEP to stay ahead of increasingly capable commercial color copiers and digital scanners. The Federal Reserve had already rolled out the redesigned $20 in 2003 and $50 in 2004; the $10 followed that same defensive logic, not any aesthetic ambition.
The embedded security thread in this series reads "USA TEN" and glows orange under ultraviolet light — a different glow color from every other denomination, a feature that sounds obvious in retrospect but required years of interagency coordination to standardize across the series.