Notes from other countries

As we have decided on recreating the queen on an english bank note, I thought it would also be a good idea to research into foreign money to see what their main figure on their notes were, and whether we could use any of them as inspiration.


One of the most well known foreign currency is the American dollar, which ranges in value from $1 to $100 on one single bill. Each of these notes have different famous people on the front of them (all male) to differentiate between the set amounts on the bills.

The above image is of a $10 bill, with Alexander Hamilton featured on the obverse of the note, the U.S Treasury is featured on the back. This image could also be used as an idea for our appropriation brief, we could recreate this image of Alexander Hamilton, as a slight change to our original english queen.

The above image is of a $100 bill, featuring Benjamin Franklin on the front, and Independence Hall on the back. This image could also be appropriated as a change on the queen, and could work well with it looking so old fashioned if we were to put a modern spin to it.

The Indian rupee is also another possibility for use of appropriation. On the front of the note their is an image of Mahatma Gadhi, who is a famous icon which I have previously researched into. He became famous for his courageous work for the civil rights movement in the early 1900's, which is why I think this could be used as a good appropriation image.

Although I have only given a few images as examples, I think it clearly shows the idea of being able to manipulate an original image into something which you are going to try and recreate. All of the images on the pictures which I have uploaded are all suitable for image appropriation, as they are all iconic figures and they would be reasonably simple to copy, but still look effective.

Out of all the note images we have looked at so far I still think that the english note with the queens head would be the most effective, as it is the most iconic currency for our group. Although if we wanted to introduce other currency's as an alternative to the queen, then the examples I have provided would be great options, especially with them being male which is a direct opposite of the queen.

-Beth-