Funny & Beautiful Defaced Dollar Bills

Have you heard about "Defaced Dollar Bills Art"? No? Some Artist are doing their artwork on a dollar bills to make it funny and beautiful. This kind of altering & currency manipulation to make it an art has been around for a long, long time. Most country including United States don't allowed Defaced banknotes but so far no one has been bring to court for defacing US notes. People consider it as an art, making the dollar bill more interesting. I like artwork done by artist James Charles in his series of Pop Culture Cash. He is using a real dollar bills and transform it into colorfully amusing pop culture icons.

Is It Illegal to Deface a Dollar Bill
If you want to talk about law, yes.., it is illegal under US Code Title 18 Chapter 333:

whoever mutilates, cuts, disfigures, perforates, unites or cements together, or does any other thing to any bank bill, draft, note, or other evidence of debt issued by any national banking association, Federal Reserve Bank, or Federal Reserve System, with intent to render such item(s) unfit to be reissued, shall be fined not more than $100 or imprisoned not more than six months, or both.

In my opinion, these are just work of art and expression of the artist on what happening around them. They don't intent to exchange the notes for greater then denomination value but some defaced banknote art by some artist might get a high value to their fans. 

Funny & Beautiful Defaced Dollar Bills

Here are some work by James Charles, who make an exhibition "American Iconomics" at the Shooting Gallery in San Francisco in 2011.

You can find more of the artwork here; Pop Culture Cash.

They're also a group of people in Flickr who posted a Defaced Presidents dollar bills, the group has been around since 2007 and many Defaced Presidents notes artist share their work in the group. Here are some that I think worth to mention:

 You can find more of their work in the group: The defaced presidents Pool


Artist, Sean Monaghan also share some of his work in Yahoo Finance, turning circulating U.S. currency into comical masterpieces.

You can find his work at: Dollar bills serve as artist's canvas.

I think most people knew Ronald McDonald clown, here are artwork by Atypyk, you can visit him at atypyk.com.

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