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Background: I just found out this year that my birthday is also the same day Aaron Burr shot Alexander Hamilton in a duel. Ever noticed the “blank” oval on the back of a $10 bill? There’s actually a larger oval on the front side that corresponds with it. If you hold it up to the light from the obverse side, you’ll see a faint outline of Hamilton’s face. I’m posting this because this bill has been out for six years and I just saw that oval while researching Hamilton, and here I thought I was pretty observant. Interesting factoid. Treasury was going to replace Hamilton on the ten in 2020, but the popularity of the stage play “Hamilton” caused them to change their minds. Hamilton is well known as a Founding Father. Author of about 60% of the Federalist Papers. First Secretary of the Treasury, and the victim of an infamous duel. There is so much more to him than that. BTW, historians believe Hamilton intended to “throw away his shot” in the duel with Burr, never intending to shoot to kill—only uphold his honor by facing Burr.  _______________________________________________________ despite them | ||
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Fighting the good fight |
Yep. This portrait watermark is present on all newer style $100s, $50s, $20s, and $10s. The $5s have a similar watermark too, but it's a large numeral 5 instead of Lincoln's face. And these watermarks are visible from either side of the bill. https://www.currexy.com/us-dollar-security-features | |||
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Coast Guard I think, right? I've also read about a possible relationship with John Laurens. | |||
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| Freethinker |
Watermarks have been used on foreign currency for many years. ► 6.4/93.6 “ Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-imposed nonage. Nonage is the inability to use one’s own understanding without another’s guidance. This nonage is self-imposed if its cause lies not in lack of understanding but in indecision and lack of courage to use one’s own mind without another’s guidance.” — Immanuel Kant | |||
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Boy, you are old!  Place your clothes and weapons where you can find them in the dark. “If in winning a race, you lose the respect of your fellow competitors, then you have won nothing” - Paul Elvstrom "The Great Dane" 1928 - 2016 | |||
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| Lawyers, Guns and Money  |
 The Burr–Hamilton duel was fought at Weehawken, New Jersey between Vice President Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton, the former Secretary of the Treasury. It occurred on July 11, 1804 Well Happy 215th Birthday!! "Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." -- Justice Janice Rogers Brown "The United States government is the largest criminal enterprise on earth." -rduckwor | |||
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Politicians shooting each other. Maybe that system works better than our current state of government. Happy Birthday! End of Earth: 2 Miles Upper Peninsula: 4 Miles | |||
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| Stumbling through where others have fallen  |
Is it now ok to post pictures of currency? Anybody know if it was a no no years ago? Note: Just read up on it. Evidently it's ok. ________________________________________________ "Things are more the way they are today than they've ever been before" "I don't know a lot but I can zero beat the V's on an R390." | |||
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Only under certain conditions... https://legalbeagle.com/761213...l-copy-currency.html | |||
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| Legalize the Constitution |
Thanks for the link. Just to be clear though, what I was admitting to not noticing is the “blank oval” clearly visible on the obverse side of the $10. It appears from following your link, that the $100 dollar bill is the only other with a similar “window.” While all the others have security features (and I believe they always have), none of the others have that feature. _______________________________________________________ despite them | |||
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| Freethinker |
If by “feature” you mean a watermark, the newest $5, $20, $50, and $100 notes all have it. Only the $10 has a clearly outlined oval for it to appear in, but watermarks are present on all the rest. And watermarks are much harder to fake than paper without starch for those silly iodine markers to detect. ► 6.4/93.6 “ Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-imposed nonage. Nonage is the inability to use one’s own understanding without another’s guidance. This nonage is self-imposed if its cause lies not in lack of understanding but in indecision and lack of courage to use one’s own mind without another’s guidance.” — Immanuel Kant | |||
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The founding father I share a first name with, and also the one I like the least. Tom's my guy. | |||
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Yup, he’s the founder of the Revenue Cutter Service which turned into the modern Coast Guard. The fact that he was in a duel, makes him even cooler regardless of what it was over. "Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor.” Robert A. Heinlein “You may beat me, but you will never win.” sigmonkey-2020 “A single round of buckshot to the torso almost always results in an immediate change of behavior.” Chris Baker | |||
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| Legalize the Constitution |
Sorry, I really thought I was quite clear about it. Obviously not _______________________________________________________ despite them | |||
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