Triptych of $5 bills with Abraham Lincoln in costumes (via Tumblr)

Abe Lincoln: wizard, captain, father of metal.

$1 bill with inspired by Ronald McDonald (via Tumblr)

Washington gets a colorful nose.

$1 bill inspired by 'Jurassic Park' (via Tumblr)

Watch that reptile behind you, George.

$1 bill with shaking hands (© Scott Campbell via Imgur, http://i.imgur.com/FuBGF.jpg)

Let's shake on it.

Beethoven looks serious on this one.

$1 bill with George Washington drinking (via Tumblr)

George is quite handsome as an abstract piece of art.

$10 bill with Captain Jack Sparrow (via Tumblr)

Pirate Alex. Yar, there be the Constitution, matey.

$5 bill with Albert Einstein (via Tumblr)

This bill looks extra smart.

$1 bill inspired by 'Super Mario Brothers' (via Tumblr)

Transformed into Mario, who never looked so dignified.

$1 bill with a skull & flourishes (© Scott Campbell via Imgur, http://i.imgur.com/FuBGF.jpg)

The Badass States of America.

$1 bill with Marilyn Monroe (via Tumblr)

The dollar bill sure would have been prettier with Marilyn Monroe on it.

$5 bill with the Terminator (via Imgur, http://imgur.com/a/VOH3n)

Terminator Abe.

$10 bill inspired by 'Where the Wild Things Are' (via Tumblr)

Max from ‘Where the Wild Things Are’ makes an appearance on the ten note.

$1 bill with a burned-out center (via Tumblr)

Where'd Washington go?

The dark force of the sinister one dollar bill.

Triptych of $1 bills creating a Virgin Mary (© Scott Campbell via Imgur, http://i.imgur.com/FuBGF.jpg)

Mary praying over her cash. Is this sacrilegious?

$1 bill with a shattered glass effect (via Tumblr)

An artistically decorated piece of U.S. currency.

Georgie boy goes zombie on us.

$1 bill with a revolver (© Scott Campbell via Imgur, http://i.imgur.com/FuBGF.jpg)

Washington stares out from behind a revolver.

$5 bill with Bill Murray (via Imgur, http://imgur.com/gallery/5OM0a)

A Reddit user said this Bill Murray note was handed out in the drive-thru.

$1 bill with a bunny (via Imgur, http://imgur.com/gallery/35swq)

Bunny Foo Foo for president.

$20 bill with Frankenstein's monster (via Imgur, http://imgur.com/a/VOH3n)

Franken-ackson?

$10 bill made to look like $20 (via Imgur, http://imgur.com/gallery/mcvu2)

Easy way to double your profit.

Abe and George get makeovers in awesomely defaced currency

10/23/2012

George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Alexander Hamilton – they all seem like pretty stuffy guys, right? But a little fun with defacing currency and suddenly they're transformed into cool dudes. Who knew Lincoln would make such a good metalhead, or that Hamilton bore the jawline of a pirate? And seeing good ol' Georgie boy as a bloodthirsty zombie sure makes his cherry tree story seem a little suspect. The art is illegal but still manages to circulate. One Reddit user claims he was handed the Bill Murray note at the drive-thru. But our personal favorite from the gallery above is the pragmatic fellow at the end who said to heck with the art, and turned his ten into a twenty.

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