25 Hilarious Defaced Dollar Bills
Money is just money, after all, just silly pieces of metal and paper we’ve assigned arbitrary value to, so what’s the point in having it if you can’t have fun with it? One way to do just that is to treat the stuff as a medium rather than a means to an end, as the clever defacers of government property have done in Best Article Every Day’s listicle of 25 Hilarious Deface Dollar Bills. Our favorite is this version of Alexander Hamilton as, we’re guessing, Marie Antoinette. We scrounged around and found an artist who’s done a whole series of defaced bills, some of which are included after the jump.
The Dollar Bill Art of Scott Campbell
i think the top $10 bill is actually alexander hamilton as rainbow brite.
Ditto, Rainbow Brite.
Duly noted, thanks folks!
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