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The Best Banksy Controversies… So Far
The Value of a Queen
Currency notes are just a government-issued IOU — replete with patriotic political figures, monarchs, symbols, and token glorified landscapes — but Banksy gave the British pound a whole new meaning when he replaced the picture of the Queen on several £10 notes with an image of the late Princess Diana. The altered bills were distributed at a London carnival in 2004 and several eager recipients tried to use them in local shops before discovering their lack of value. This is one case where it would have helped to read the fine print: instead of “Bank of England” the bills were marked as “Banksy of England.”con’t….
