Thank you to everyone who has liked and tweeted this today. I'm v happy with these portraits. I feel like I captured their essence... the final designs in the series will be released next weekend.

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The darkly brilliant illustrations of Edmond Dulac (1882 – 1953). A prolific golden-age illustrator who had a particular affinity with the writings of Edgar Allan Poe. Strangely, he also "designed banknotes during World War II and postage stamps"!

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Sure! Just wait for the GBP and you're good to go!

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People love these pet banknotes so much, they got their own merchandise
https://t.co/7WySXLVt4R

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Reimagining the British Banknote – with illustrations by Matt Blease, Michael Driver, Nadia Akingbule and Joey Yu – part of Zopa's 'FeelGood Money' campaign.

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I just got a nice little shiver when working out whether the binary on the ribbon of the new £50 banknote meant anything.

1010111111110010110011000 is 23061912 in decimal. Alan Turing was born on the 23rd June 1912. What a nice touch.

RIP, Alan.

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Fictional banknotes I created.

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Sanité Bélair, who served as a lieutenant under Haitian rebel general Toussaint Louverture, making her one of the only female military officers of the Napoleonic era. This portrait of her appears on the Haitian 10 gourde banknote.

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in 1948, William Lyon Mackenzie King retired as prime minister of Canada after more than two decades of service—a British Commonwealth record. https://t.co/Kk8qNLOTU3

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Happy birthday, Edmund Dulac (France/UK, 1882-1953). Artist & illustrator. His first big commission was illustrating the novels of the Brontë Sisters. Also designed banknotes & postage stamps.

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Fictional banknotes I created.

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in 1989, the Canadian Bank Note Co. printed Canada’s last $1 banknotes, which were from the Scenes of Canada series, the fourth banknote series issued by the Bank of Canada. https://t.co/h42wIdqxxw

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The Bank of China (Hong Kong) will soon issue a commemorative banknote marking its centenary. https://t.co/q3TiG9dTL1

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In Europe they put buildings on the money. That's one way to stop the whiny shitfest over who should be on banknotes

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Thank you Angela Merkel
Thank you Wolfgang Schäuble

banknotes.gr (by Stefanos)


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Design is at the forefront of Norway's new banknotes: http://t.co/aKjYkMhLs0

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