the new TEN

[lofter1]

Gov't Adds Color To $10, Effort To Thwart Counterfeiters...

The $10 Bill Gets a Makeover

Associated Press
MARTIN CRUTSINGER
September 28, 2005

http://aolsvc.news.aol.com/business/article.adp?id=20050928062609990008 (very cool graphic here)



http://www.huffingtonpost.com/thenewswire/archive/ap/new%20%2410%20bill.jpg

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The color of money is getting more varied. A newly designed $10 bill was unveiled Wednesday featuring splashes of orange, yellow and red to go with the traditional green.

The $10 bill note became the third bill denomination to be jazzed up with colors as part of the government's effort to thwart counterfeiters and the ever-more sophisticated devices at their disposal.

[ebrigham]

Our currency is getting decidedly more psychadelic over the last decade or so. Soon we will have scratch and sniff.


mmm, smells like Ben Franklin!

[NYatKNIGHT]

Or one of those 3D images that pops out when you look at it cross-eyed.

[ZippyTheChimp]

Alexander Hamilton was an attractive fellow.

[BrooklynRider]

Perfect skin.

[lofter1]

And, of course, he was a bastard (not that it was his fault, but sure as hell flies in the face of those who declare that a mother & father in the home are requirements for success).

Here he is in 1792 (age 35 or 37 -- seems even he wasn't certain about his birth year):

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/Alexander_Hamilton.jpg/200px-Alexander_Hamilton.jpg (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Alexander_Hamilton.jpg)

http://en.wikipedia.org/skins-1.5/common/images/magnify-clip.png (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Alexander_Hamilton.jpg) < enlarge

A protrait of Alexander Hamilton
by John Trumbull, 1792

(c) wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Hamilton (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Hamilton)

[Ninjahedge]

Man!

Baldy really porked up, didn't he?!!!

[BrooklynRider]

Lordy, Aaron Burr had a bigger target than I thought.

While we're on the subject of Hamilton, a visit to Hamilton Grange on the Upper West Side is encouraged. Hamilton was the first true American urbanist.