New $10 bills - startling

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I must have read it somewhere prior to this, but I had forgotten until yesterday that a new design for the U.S. $10 bill would be coming out. On my way home from work, I had stopped at an Albertsons store near my office to buy a few things, and the self checkout machine I used included in my change the first of these new $10 bills that I have seen.

That bill really startled me (much more so than the new version of the $20 bill had when it came out in 2003), mainly because of the new color scheme. It has red and orange shades that are very prominent. It may be hard to call this version a "greenback" because of the amount of orange ink used on the back side of the bill.

To check about this new version, I found a page that has lots of information about it on a site that is run by the Treasury Department's Bureau of Engraving and Printing. The page describes all the security and design features that are in the new $10 bill. I was amused that it describes the new colors as "subtle shades." Sorry, but they're anything but subtle.