Claim: New U.S. $5 and $10 bills contain printing errors.
FALSE
Examples:
[Collected via e-mail, April 2006]
I was told yesterday while checking out at a store that the new $10 bill has a misprint. The year that was printed on it is supposed to be 2006 and it is 2004. Supposedly the bill was not released in 2004 but this year and it is an error.
[Collected via e-mail, April 2006]
I have seen people start to hang onto the new $10 bills.
Supposedly one was sole on ebay for $500.00.
People believe that Treasury is recalling them, because date on them is 2004.
[Collected via e-mail, April 2008]
I WAS THAT THE NEW FIVE DOLLAR BILL (WITH THE PURPLE ON IT) HAS A MISS PRINT. WHERE THE DATE IS IT HAS 2006 ON IT AND IT'S SUPPOSE TO HAVE 2008. I WAS TOLD THAT IF HAVE ONE TO KEEP IT AND TRY TO FIND MORE TO KEEP THEM. THERE SUPPOSE TO BE WORTH $10 IF U HAVE ANY. I WAS IF U TAKE THEM TO THE BANK THEY WILL GIVE U $10 FOR IT. JUST SO THEY WANT BE CIRCULATION. IS THIS TRUE?
Origins: After remaining essentially the same in appearance for nearly seventy years, all U.S. currency (except the $1 and
counterfeit-deterring security features, and the
Keeping up with the dates of all these currency changes is not so straightforward, however. Unlike U.S. coins, each of which bears a year indicating when that particular coin was minted, U.S. currency features something known as "series dates." A series date does not indicate the year a particular bill was printed, but rather the date of the design featured on that bill. That is, if the
Small wonder, then, that some people assumed the 2006 release of newly-redesigned $10 bills bearing a legend reading
The series dates aren't errors, though. Although the most recent
This may all be confusing, but there are no mistakes in the dates on our money as far as the
Last updated: 17 May 2011