Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/1901 ten dollar bill

1901 series ten dollar bill

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Original – A 1901 series US ten dollar bill, depicting Meriwether Lewis and William Clark of the Lewis & Clark Expedition. The central portrait is a depiction of an American bison which may be modeled after Black Diamond, a bison once housed in the Central Park Zoo

Reason

Beautiful design, ridiculously high resolution, heck of a good scan

Articles in which this image appears

United States ten-dollar bill, Lewis and Clark Expedition, American bison, United States Note

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Culture, entertainment, and lifestyle/Culture and lifestyle

Creator

The Bureau of Engraving and Printing, scan by Godot13

• Support as nominator -- — Crisco 1492 (talk) 04:35, 9 July 2013 (UTC)
• Support Good scan. Such fine banknotes are rarely made now. Brandmeister^talk 17:13, 10 July 2013 (UTC)
• Support Thanks for the nomination... -Godot13 (talk) 00:50, 11 July 2013 (UTC)
• Support There's a small stain on the "I" in "AMERICA" on the front, and some pencil marks in the lower left of the back, but those are relatively minor issues. Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 19:29, 14 July 2013 (UTC)

• Even with a stain in the I, this is probably one of the most perfect specimens you're going to see of this bill.. heh. The ascension number I think increases EV instead of decreases, it's how the museum tracks their items. — raekyt 01:02, 15 July 2013 (UTC)

• Hence why I voted "support". Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 14:14, 15 July 2013 (UTC)

• Question What are those marks that look like pencil marks in otherwise empty space about 1/3 the distance from the right and left edges? --Pine^✉ 23:56, 14 July 2013 (UTC)

• That would be a question for Godot13, the uploader. Godot? — Crisco 1492 (talk) 00:44, 15 July 2013 (UTC)

• Ah, yes. Well there are two different marks. If you're referring to the red and blue squiggles running the length of the note from top to bottom, they are silk fibers embedded in the paper as an anti-counterfeiting measure. Typical placement was about 1/3 of the way in from both sides. They are routine in notes from this period. They could even be seen in modern era US banknotes through the 1970's or 1980's, though there were very small. There is also a pencil notation in the lower left reverse margin. This is the accession number written on the note when it was donated by the US Treasury to the Smithsonian Institution. Any other question just let me know.--Godot13 (talk) 00:59, 15 July 2013 (UTC)

• Actually, even on today's US notes, close inspection will show a few very small stray fibers still, but not in the concentrated patter seen in the image...-Godot13 (talk) 01:03, 15 July 2013 (UTC)

• Support Hope theres still more bills being uploaded from the collection eventually. ;-) — raekyt 01:04, 15 July 2013 (UTC)
• Support - MrX 22:27, 15 July 2013 (UTC)
• Support as all previous sets. --Wingtipvorte^X PTT ∅ 00:37, 16 July 2013 (UTC)

Promoted File:US-$10-LT-1901-Fr.114.jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 07:57, 18 July 2013 (UTC)