Banksy | Di-Faced Tenner

Banksy (b. c.1974)
Di-Faced Tenner
Offset lithograph | 2004

In 2004 Banksy printed what he later described as £1 million worth of spoof ten-pound notes, an estimated 100,000 or more, and dropped them into the crowds at Notting Hill Carnival and the Reading Festival. Princess Diana takes the Queen's place, the Bank of England becomes the "Banksy of England", and the reverse keeps Charles Darwin but adds the words "Trust No One". Plenty of recipients tried to spend them, which was part of the joke.

The design has had a second life since. Pest Control Office, the body Banksy set up to authenticate his work, tears a Di-Faced Tenner in half, attaches one half to each of its certificates and keeps the other on file. In 2019 the British Museum added a Di-Faced Tenner to its collection of coins and banknotes, its first work by Banksy.

Available through Creed Gallery, Ascot, for collectors across Berkshire, Surrey and London.

Offset lithograph on paper
7.5 × 14.5 cm
Double-sided
Distributed in 2004 at Notting Hill Carnival and the Reading Festival

View more Banksy prints at Creed Gallery