USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The $10 note features a portrait of Secretary Hamilton on the front of the note and a vignette of the United States Treasury Building on the back of the note.

Detailed explanation-2: -The major changes were a revised, larger, slightly off-center portrait of Hamilton and a revised vignette of the U.S. Treasury building, now facing front. The plastic security strip reads “USA TEN” and now glows orange under a black light. Like the new $5, the bills were first printed in December 1999.

Detailed explanation-3: -Ten-dollar bill: Alexander Hamilton. Although he never served as president, Alexander Hamilton still played a major role in our nation’s history. He served in the Revolutionary War as an aide to George Washington and is one of our Founding Fathers.

Detailed explanation-4: -But perhaps the most compelling argument for keeping Hamilton on the ten-dollar bill is that without him, our modern financial system wouldn’t exist. After the war, Hamilton once again served under Washington as the first Secretary of Treasury.

Detailed explanation-5: -The $10, 000 bill featuring the portrait of President Lincoln’s Secretary of the Treasury, Salmon P. Chase, was the highest denomination US currency ever to publicly circulate.