10 Dollars United States Department of Agriculture Food Coupon

U.S. food coupons of this generation are frequently miscategorized as currency, but they were instruments of a federal entitlement program — the Food Stamp Act of 1964 authorized their use, and by the 1990s the program was distributing tens of billions of dollars' worth annually. The USDA contracted the Bureau of Engraving and Printing specifically because the coupons needed to resist counterfeiting at the same level as circulating currency; early series had suffered significant fraud.

The embedded security thread reads "USDA" and was introduced after documented counterfeiting operations in the 1980s. Paper redemption was phased out entirely by 2004 in favor of Electronic Benefit Transfer cards, which is why intact booklets from this final print run occasionally surface in collector holdings.