United States · Federal Reserve Note
$10 note, n.d.
$10 · Series 1934A · New York
Face with Hamilton and a green Treasury seal; back with the Treasury building. District B / 2. Series 1934A, serial B42488184B.
Catalog facts
- Pick reference
- P#430Da · Fr. 2006-B
- Serial number
- B42488184B
- Signatures
- W. A. Julian (Treasurer) and Henry Morgenthau Jr. (Secretary of the Treasury)
- Condition
- Ungraded. The photographs show no grading certification and do not fix a grade.
- Printage
- The printing date of B42488184B is not established. 1934A is the series designation, not the year this example was printed. USPaperMoney.Info gives New York’s combined 1934–1934D span: B00000001A–B83288000F. It notes that, before Series 1950, the series could be mixed before numbering, and that the first Series 1934A serial is not recorded separately. The first recorded Series 1934B New York serial is B71688001D. B42488184B falls in the B–B block, earlier than that start. That span is not the printage or the exclusive range of Series 1934A.
Face
Back
The note
The Series 1934A $10 (Pick 430Da, Friedberg 2006-B) is a small-size Federal Reserve Note of the New York district: a circular seal with B, 2s in the four inner corners, and the bank legend “FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF NEW YORK.” The black face with green seal and serials carries Alexander Hamilton in an oval and, at right, the Treasury seal over TEN. The signatures are W. A. Julian and Henry Morgenthau Jr., the same pair as on Series 1934 without a letter. The legal-tender clause promises redemption “in lawful money” at the Treasury or any Federal Reserve Bank. Check letter F sits to the left of the Reserve seal; face plate F219 sits at lower right. The green back shows the Treasury building in Washington, D.C., with street figures and an interwar automobile before the façade; plate number 938 sits near the right inner border of the vignette. The Paper Money Project places macro face plates on Series 1934A, and back plates from 585 in the macro group. A 1934A mule pairs a macro face with a micro back (584 or lower). Back 938 falls in the macro group, so the visible pairing is the ordinary issue. These photographs do not measure the seal shade: the same project places, during Series 1934, the change from vivid yellow-green to dull blue-green, and treats “dark green” as a misnomer for that later ink. The official small-size format is 6.14 × 2.61 inches (about 156 × 66 mm); those figures describe the issue, not a measurement of this example. The Bureau of Engraving and Printing printed it in Washington, D.C.: New York names the district. This ungraded, unslabbed piece carries serial B42488184B in both positions. The block is B–B. The opening B is the district; the final B is the block letter, separate from the A in the series. It is a regular issue: the serial ends in B, not a star, and it has no HAWAII overprint. The motto “IN GOD WE TRUST” is absent from the back. District B / 2, Fr. 2006-B, and this serial set it apart from the Series 1934 Chicago $10, G30986728A, the Series 1934A Chicago $10, G74025286A, the Cleveland note, D78652996A, the Philadelphia note, C46924254A, the Series 1934C Kansas City $10, J55894000A, the Series 1934D Richmond $10, E60822246B, and the Series 1934A New York $500 and $1,000, B00286799A and B00411221A.
Series 1934A
Series 1934A $10 notes keep the Julian–Morgenthau signatures and the same Hamilton engraving. What sets them apart from Series 1934 is typographic: plate numbers grow from micro to macro. The Paper Money Project places that change on 1934A. A mule pairs a macro face with a micro back. The 1934–1934D group was printed from 1934 to 1951, in all twelve districts. During Series 1934 the green of the seal and serials changed from vivid yellow-green to dull blue-green. This photograph is not a measurement of that shade on B42488184B.
The Bank Note Museum numbers the type P-430Da. Numista gathers the broader design — large TEN, small portrait — as N# 202481 and groups it under P# 430D. New York is district B / 2. This B–B block piece is a regular issue. The visible face plate is F219 and the back plate is 938: that back falls in the macro group (585 and higher), so the pair is the ordinary issue, not a mule. It is also not New York face plate 169, which The Paper Money Project treats apart as a late-finished plate. The motto “IN GOD WE TRUST” is not yet on the back. The span B00000001A–B83288000F covers 1934 through 1934D together; it is not entered here as the exclusive range of this series or as the printage of this example.
Scarcity and printage
Series 1934A $10 notes — Julian–Morgenthau signatures, all twelve districts — were everyday Reserve paper during the war. The Bank Note Museum numbers the type P-430Da. Fr. 2006-B is New York. The ordinary type is common in mid grades; the keys are star replacements, plate mules, New York face plate 169, and the HAWAII $20, which already has a note page: serial L86654132A, Fr. 2305. This piece is not entered as any of those varieties: macro back 938 with face F219, a regular B–B block issue. The span B00000001A–B83288000F is New York’s combined 1934–1934D run. This record does not invent a printage by block or a printage exclusive to Series 1934A.
Population
A PMG or PCGS census for serial B42488184B has not been independently verified. The note is unslabbed and carries no certificate number.
Sources
- Bank Note Museum — P-430D, Series 1934–1934D $10 Federal Reserve Note (opens in a new tab)
430Da: Series 1934A, Julian and Morgenthau signatures; district B = New York.
- The Paper Money Project — Series 1934 $10 Federal Reserve Notes (opens in a new tab)
1934A introduces macro face plates. A 1934A mule pairs a macro face with a micro back (584 or lower). Backs from 585 are macro; back 938 on this piece falls in that group. Seal green changed during Series 1934.
- The Paper Money Project — face plate 169, Series 1934A New York $10 (opens in a new tab)
Plate 169 is the New York late-finished face. The plate visible here is F219.
- USPaperMoney.Info — $10 serial summary (opens in a new tab)
New York, Series 1934 through 1934D together: B00000001A–B83288000F. The series could be mixed before numbering; the first Series 1934A serial is not recorded separately. The first recorded Series 1934B New York serial is B71688001D.
- Greysheet — Series 1934A $10 Federal Reserve Note (opens in a new tab)
Fr. 2006-B is the New York type. Prices are not republished.
- Paper Money Forum — guide to the Series 1934 through 1934D $10 (opens in a new tab)
The final B of the serial is a block letter, separate from the district B and from the A in the series.
- Numista — N# 202481, $10 Federal Reserve Note, large TEN (opens in a new tab)
Broad small-portrait type. Numista groups it under P# 430D; this record uses the 430Da suffix for Series 1934A.
- U.S. Currency Education Program — $10 (opens in a new tab)
Hamilton on the $10 since 1929; the Treasury building on the back of small-size series before the 2006 redesign.
- U.S. Currency Education Program — bank note identifiers (opens in a new tab)
The letter in the seal and serial, with the district numeral, identifies the Federal Reserve Bank. B / 2 is New York.
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