The
United States ten-dollar bill ($10) is a
denomination of
U.S. currency. The first
U.S. Secretary of the Treasury (1789–95),
Alexander Hamilton, is currently featured on the
obverse of the bill, while the
U.S. Treasury Building is featured on the
reverse. Hamilton is one of two non-presidents featured on currently issued U.S. bills, the other being
Benjamin Franklin on the
$100 bill. Hamilton is one of only four people featured on U.S. paper currency (1861 to the present) who were not born in the continental United States; he was from the
West Indies. The others were:
Albert Gallatin, Switzerland ($500 1862/63 Legal Tender);
George Meade, Spain ($1,000 1890/91 Treasury Note); and
Robert Morris, England ($1,000 1862/63 Legal Tender; $10 1878/80 Silver Certificate). In addition,
Kamehameha I appears on the 2008
Hawaii state quarter. All $10 bills issued today are
Federal Reserve Notes.