So this has been on your mind for the past year and a half, has it?
According to coin/currency sites I’ve perused, the US $10 bill does not portray any specific brand or model of car, the bureau of engraving didn’t want to seem to be endorsing a particular car maker so kludged a generic vehicle together…
Not exactly, Zarathustra. After all, the new $5 bills haven’t been distributed for that long–particularly in Southern California. Besides, I’m a little piqued with the new bills because:
- The obverse no longer shows which Federal Reserve bank the bill is issued through.
- Abe Lincoln’s portrait on the new $5 bill doesn’t look as good; his hair is particularly ill-groomed.
- On the old $10 and $100 bills, Hamilton and Franklin looked a little smug–they are the only subjects on U.S. Currency who never became President. (Lincoln, bitterly assailed during his term of office, once commented :“If it weren’t for the honor of the thing, I’d just as soon walk.”)
- While the government urges us to use the Sacagawea dollar coin, they’re still printing dollar bills–with the old pattern–while Canada got its citizens to use the Looney dollar by ceasing to print paper dollars. (I seem to recall that even Cecil commented about this.)
- As mentioned above, the watermark portraits don’t look very good–and they seem to vary from bill to bill.
So you people are telling me that a naked chick is just above and to the left of the Humpmobile? Oh, joy! 