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Friday, March 10, 2006

Orangebacks

I received one of the new $10 bills yesterday. It's surely the least green and most orange currency the Federal Reserve System has produced in living memory. It looks a bit like a traveler's check, and also shows signs of having been designed by committee. The Statue of Liberty torch motif is O.K., I suppose, although Hamilton seems to be looking right past the large torch (not entirely surprising given some of his predilections). The "We the People" just looks tacky, in addition to being the one-thing-too-many in the design. And I really don't see the design wisdom of superimposing three different graphical elements (the Treasury seal, the word "TEN" and "We the People"). This bill will definitely discourage the more metrosexual elements of the counterfeiting community, who wouldn't be caught dead cranking out copies of this mess.


(This image does not do justice to how orange it looks in real life, and exaggerates the amount of green. The only real green on the front of the bill is in the Treasury seal and serial numbers.)


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