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10 Dollars Silver Certificate, Blue Seal at right
| Uitgever | United States Treasury |
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| Jaar | 1953 |
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| Samenstelling | Cotton/linen blend |
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| Opschrift voorzijde | SILVER CERTIFICATE THIS CERTIFIES THAT THERE IS ON DEPOSIT IN THE TREASURY OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA THIS CERTIFICATE IS LEGAL TENDER FOR ALL DEBTS PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SERIES 1953 TEN DOLLARS IN SILVER PAYABLE TO THE BEARER ON DEMAND WASHINGTON D.C. HAMILTON |
| Beschrijving keerzijde | Printed entirely in green intaglio, the reverse centres on a detailed architectural vignette of the United States Treasury Building in Washington D.C., rendered in perspective with its classical colonnade, surrounding grounds, and period street scene with figures and a motor vehicle in the foreground. Elaborate scrollwork and lathe-work guilloche panels frame the four corners, each bearing the numeral '10' with 'TEN' above. 'THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA' arches across the top, with 'TEN DOLLARS' in bold capitals along the lower border and 'U.S. TREASURY' captioning the central vignette. |
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By 1953, Silver Certificates were already living on borrowed time. The Treasury had been quietly pressured to phase out silver-backed currency for years, and this $10 issue — one of the last of the denomination ever printed — was effectively a holdover while policy caught up with economics. The $10 Silver Certificate series was discontinued entirely before a 1953C could be issued, making the run unusually short: 1953, 1953A, and 1953B only.
Silver redemption rights were suspended in 1968, stripping these notes of their statutory function. The 1953B, signed by Smith and Dillon, is the scarcest of the three.