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10 Dollars Federal Reserve Note, small portrait, with security thread
| Issuer | Federal Reserve (United States) |
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| Year | 1990-1995 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Intaglio-printed portrait vignette of Alexander Hamilton at center, set against a fine guilloche underprint, with the Federal Reserve Seal and Treasurer's signature to the left and the Treasury Seal and Secretary of the Treasury's signature to the right. Denomination numerals and the legal tender inscription appear above and below the central vignette. An embedded security thread runs vertically to the left of the portrait. |
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| Reverse description | Intaglio-rendered vignette of the U.S. Treasury Building at center, viewed from a three-quarter perspective with a period street scene in the foreground, flanked at all four corners by ornate guilloche rosettes bearing the denomination numeral "10". "THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA" arches across the top, with "IN GOD WE TRUST" immediately below, and "TEN DOLLARS" in bold intaglio lettering across the lower portion. The inscription "U.S. TREASURY" appears below the building vignette. |
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The security thread in this series was introduced as a direct response to the emergence of high-quality color photocopiers — specifically the Canon Color Laser Copier 500, which the Secret Service had identified by the late 1980s as capable of producing convincing counterfeits of earlier issues. The polyester thread, embedded in the paper and reading "USA TEN" in microprint, was the first major structural security upgrade to U.S. currency since the introduction of fine-line background printing decades earlier.
Notes from the earliest print runs of this series (1990 Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta and others) occasionally show thread placement variance — the thread sits noticeably closer to one edge than specified. Not an error per se, but documented enough to attract attention from specialists.