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Banksy’s Fake £10 Note Will Become the First Work by the Artist to Enter the British Museum’s Collection
Banksy’s Fake £10 Note Will Become the First Work by the Artist to Enter the British Museum’s Collection

The British Museum has added its first piece by notorious British street artist Banksy to its collection, a counterfeit—counterfeit currency, that is. In 2004, Banksy printed £1 million worth of fake £10 notes that replaced the visage of Queen Elizabeth II with that of late Princess Diana. Banksy then dropped the money on crowds at the Notting Hill Carnival and at the Reading Festival.

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