Posted on 01/20/2010 1:22:25 PM PST by Pharmboy
What kind of car is pictured on the back of the $10 note?
The question of the make and model of the automobile on the back of the U.S. $10 notes has been a regular one virtually ever since the notes first were printed, in 1928. A considerable amount of misinformation has found its way into reference works along with the facts, which are these: The $10 notes in the series 1928 Gold Certificates, 1928 and later Federal Reserve Notes, 1929 Federal Reserve Bank Notes, and 1933, 1934, 1934A, 1934B, 1934C, 1934D and 1953 Silver Certificates all bear the same back design.
It depicts an auto on the street near the Treasury building. The auto has over the years been incorrectly identified as a Hupmobile and several other then-current makes of cars. Both the U.S. Treasury and Krause Publications staff experts, who produce Old Cars Weekly, are in complete agreement that the car is a composite, made of parts from several different cars, and does not represent any specific make or model.
Money and auto ping...I knew you guys would HAVE to know this.
According to Snopes, it is not any one type but a composite of many types of cars. It was minted in 1928, and a few years later people spread the rumor that it car’s occupants were Bonnie and Clyde, but they didn’t even meet until two years after the minting.
lol.
Someone actually knew the answer to this?
Isn’t that Laurel & Hardy standing on the sidewalk?
Funny. I’m sure that a lot of different makes are “HUMPmobiles”.
Yeah, I heard that it was a composite as well, a composite of what, I have no clue.
So they had Hybrids back then, too??? /s
Thanks! This had been keeping me up at night the last few weeks. Hehe...
I had a Chevy Vega that turned out to one.
Then there was this 1980 Toyota hatchback owned by a girl named Mary that turned out to be one, too.
I would like to see for myself but my wife will not let me have a bill of that high a denomination. :-)
ML/NJ
And who in hell is driving the car?
Yeah...you seem correct. Bur, I imagine Treasury could not be seen as supporting one make over another.
Hey...you could win a bar bet in this one. Some loudmouth guy INSISTING that it’s a Hupmobile and you go to the web and show him it’s a composite. Free drink for you!
In college I dated a girl who was an heiress to the vast Hupmobile fortune.
I saw a sign once that said “Speed Hump”.
So I did.
Could be any car from that era, I suppose.
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