$10 Bill

$10 Bill

The United States ten dollar bill depicting founding father Alexander Hamilton.

in 1861 the ten dollar bill went into mass printing in the Unites States. It wasn't until the early 1900's that the U.S. Treasury mandated that every ten dollar bill have an identical portrait of founding father, Alexander Hamilton. Hamilton remains one of two historical figures on U.S. currency that did not serve as President of the United States. In 2015 the U.S. Treasury announced that the face of Alexander Hamilton would be removed from the ten dollar bill with the intention of replacing his image with that of a woman who has greatly impacted american history. However, in 2016 the U.S. Treasury revoked their intension to remove Hamilton from the ten dollar bill. This reinstating of Hamilton's memorialization through American currency can be attributed to the success of Lin-Manuel Miranda's musical Hamilton, which portrays the character of hamilton in s positive and sentimental light. Lin-Manuel Miranda spoke on behalf of Hamilton to the U.S. Treasury in hopes of saving Hamilton's image on the ten dollar bill; although many factors went into this decision, it is clear the Hamilton the Musical impacted the saving of Hamilton's image.

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