United States · Federal Reserve Note
$10 note, n.d.
$10 · Series 1934A · Philadelphia
Face with Hamilton and a green Treasury seal; back with the Treasury building. District C / 3. Series 1934A, serial C46924254A.
Catalog facts
- Pick reference
- P#430Da · Fr. 2006-C
- Serial number
- C46924254A
- Signatures
- W. A. Julian (Treasurer) and Henry Morgenthau Jr. (Secretary of the Treasury)
- Condition
- Ungraded. Cream-to-tan paper with uneven toning and scattered spotting; visible edge and corner wear. The images show no grading certification.
- Printage
- The printing date of C46924254A is not established. Series 1934A $10 production began in 1938 and continued into the mid-1940s: 1934A is the series designation, not the year this example was printed. USPaperMoney.Info gives Philadelphia’s combined 1934–1934D span (C00000001A–C94760000B) and notes that the series could be mixed before numbering. 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-C) is a small-size Federal Reserve Note of the Philadelphia district: a circular seal with C, 3s in the four inner corners, and the bank legend “FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF PHILADELPHIA PENNSYLVANIA.” 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 L sits to the left of the Reserve seal; face plate L87, in macro size, 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 658 sits near the right inner border of the vignette. On this design, back plates from 585 belong to the macro group. Face L87 with back 658 is the ordinary non-mule issue. The official small-size format is 6.14 × 2.61 inches (about 156 × 66 mm); the type paper is cotton and linen (75 percent and 25 percent). Those figures describe the issue, not a measurement of this example. The Bureau of Engraving and Printing printed it in Washington, D.C.: Philadelphia names the district. This ungraded, unslabbed piece is serial C46924254A (C–A block). The final A is the block letter, separate from the A in the series. It is a regular issue: the serial ends in A, not a star, and it has no HAWAII overprint. The motto “IN GOD WE TRUST” is absent from the back. District C / 3, Fr. 2006-C, and this serial set it apart from the Series 1934 Chicago $10, G30986728A, the Series 1934A Chicago $10, G74025286A, the Cleveland note, D78652996A, and the Series 1934D Richmond $10, E60822246B.
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. Series 1934A notes carry the dark-green seal (DGS), which specialists also describe as blue-green, not the yellow-green of the earliest 1934 printings. Production began in 1938 and continued into the mid-1940s.
The Bank Note Museum numbers the type P-430Da in the dark-seal group. Numista gathers the broader design — large TEN, small portrait — as N# 202481 and groups it under P# 430D. Philadelphia is district C / 3. This C–A block piece is a regular issue. The face plate is L87 and the back plate is 658: that back falls in the macro group (585 and higher), so the pair is the ordinary issue. The motto “IN GOD WE TRUST” is not yet on the back. The published Philadelphia span C00000001A–C94760000B covers 1934 through 1934D together; it is not entered here as the range of this series.
Scarcity and printage
Series 1934A $10 notes — Julian–Morgenthau signatures, dark-green seal, all twelve districts — were everyday Reserve paper during the war. The Bank Note Museum numbers the type P-430Da. Fr. 2006-C is Philadelphia. The type is common in mid grades; the keys are star replacements, plate mules, and the HAWAII $20, which already has a note page: serial L86654132A, Fr. 2305. This piece is the ordinary issue: macro back 658 with a 1934A face. This record does not invent a printage by block or a Philadelphia printage exclusive to Series 1934A.
Population
A PMG or PCGS census for serial C46924254A 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 C = Philadelphia; dark-green seal.
- The Paper Money Project — Series 1934 $10 Federal Reserve Notes (opens in a new tab)
1934A introduces macro plates and the dark-green seal. A mule pairs a macro face with a micro back. Backs from 585 are macro; back 658 on this piece falls in that group.
- Greysheet — Fr. 2006-C, 1934A $10 Federal Reserve Note, Philadelphia (opens in a new tab)
Small-size type, dark-green seal, Philadelphia district.
- Paper Money Forum — guide to the Series 1934 through 1934D $10 (opens in a new tab)
1934A production began in 1938. The final A of the serial is a block letter, separate from the A in the series.
- USPaperMoney.Info — $10 serial summary (opens in a new tab)
Philadelphia, Series 1934 through 1934D together: C00000001A–C94760000B. The series could be mixed before numbering; the first Series 1934A serial is not recorded separately.
- 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. C / 3 is Philadelphia.
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