Clay Bavor used 1,702 pennies of varying shades to make a portrait of Abraham Lincoln. Sorting the pennies took about 7 hours, and composing the image took just under 6 hours.

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Australian stockbroker turned artist Anthony White paints about money:

The US Series started at $US1 and continues up in $US 1 increments.

When I sell one of the painting for the $US amount on the canvas I then work on selling the next painting in the series (last painting + 1). I only sell them in numeric order. However you can reserve a number in advance.

So far, Anthony said that his paintings are a sure bet:

Some people have made good profits from buying my artwork. Nobody who has bought my artwork has ever lost money when it comes to reselling my work. Not too many artists can say that.

Link - via Art News Blog - Thanks Dion!

Billy sent us a link to a blog post about his metabuck:

These infinite currency notes (named ‘metabucks’ by the unstoppbale Nicki Strum) have been around the world. I drew the ‘face’ side in Kalamata in 1991. The other side was drawn in Montreal 6 years later. The edition posted is from the 2nd printing. 1997. ed. of around 500. A few days ago a very polite gentleman received two from me and plans to share them with colleagues in the neumismatic archival scene.

Link - Thanks Billy!

In addition to paintings, artist and illustrator Steve Barnwell also made several money art, including Antarctica dream dollars, dream token (a solid brass coin), "Empire of America" dollars, "United States of Islam" dollars, and the colorful "Jefferson Currency Alliance".

Check it all out at his website: Link - Thanks Jay!

Related: JSG Boggs Art Money

Titled: "Absolute Power"

Titled: "Washington"

Justine Smith uses money as medium for her artwork - check out more at her website: Link - via Neatorama

Johnny Bitter, the owner of the "Johnny Burrito" restaurant in downtown Charlotte, North Carolina, collects "creatively marked" bills that ran across his lunch counter - over the years, he had collected hundreds of drawn, cut up, burnt, stamped, written on dollar bills - some quite exquisite like these ones above!

An oldie but goodie: Link

From the website:

Christopher (or C.K.) Wilde is a collagist who creates with currency. Wilde painstakingly cuts various shapes out of paper money from around the world to form collages with economic and political undertones and overlays. The relationship between art and commerce is another theme that cannot be avoided when an artist cuts and pastes with money. Wilde bases a lot of his works on found images that he develops into his own compositions, which he will lay down on museum board before skillfully applying his umpteen bits of currency so that they abut in order to keep to the ideal of an even surface. The resulting puzzle is then sealed with wax. A tidy alternative to keeping it under the mattress.

Link | Gallery - via Neatorama

Artist "DCOR" in Lausanne, Switzerland made some awesome butterfly arts, called "Pabillon" from cuttings and collages from money!

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No, that’s not a typo - it’s not money, it’s noney! From the website:

… instead of metal, tobacco or rum, Noney’s standard is the aesthetic value of the note itself. It’s an economic system backed by art - art that also serves as the system’s currency.

While Noney notes have the same basic dimension, look and feel of government-issued money, they don’t resemble any other currency. Noney is a new design. Ten different faces show people of Rhode Island with their favorite bird and favorite vegetable. These people entered a contest to appear on Noney. They represent a variety of lives and professions. Among them are a painter, a community advocate, a librarian, a photographer, a waiter and musicians.

The illustrations on Noney are hand-drawn, then hand-screenprinted onto archival, acid-free sheets of polyethylene fiber, a material that’s lighter and tougher than paper. After printing, each note is editioned by hand in red ink with a number indicating its print order. Each note is then signed in black ink. Noney’s total print run is 10,000 notes: 1,000 of each face.

Each Noney note has the same denomination: zero. This doesn’t mean each note has no value… just relative value. There’s no fixed exchange rate or location of operation. Noney’s worth as both art and currency is something to negotiate through each individual transaction - anywhere.

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JSG Boggs drew his very first bill in 1984 while sitting in a Chicago bar. The artist was doodling on a napkin, and the waitress liked his drawing and asked if he would pay his 90-cent bill with it instead of real money, and the "Boggs Notes" were born.

That was the start of JSG Bogg’s weird tale of "economic" art and later on, legal troubles. Boggs began "spending" his very own bills for face value - he would draw an elaborate note denominated $10 in exchange for $10 worth of goods.

Soon after, no doubt in part because of the high quality of illustrations, Boggs notes became very collectible - however, Boggs refused to sell his notes directly to collectors. He preferred to exchange his money for goods, at restaurants, bars and shops, and then tell the collectors where to hunt for the Bogg notes. In a way, Boggs likened his economic transaction as a performance art.

Boggs made his own versions of US as well as other countries’ banknotes - although instantly recognizable as "funny money" (one of his most famous notes was created for the Florida United Numismatist convention shown above, complete with "IN FUN WE TRUST"), Boggs were repeatedly arrested for counterfeiting in the USA and abroad.

The US Secret Service raided Boggs’ exhibit and home, and confiscated most of his artwork. Although to this day he was never charged with counterfeiting, the Secret Service refused to return his work.

Links: JSG Boggs [wiki] | Tout-Fait Article: In Boggs We Trust

Sculptor Glenna Goodacre designed the image of Sacagawea, the Shoshone Native American interpreter for explorers Lewis and Clark, that appeared on the one-dollar coin.

For this work, Glenna’s commission was paid with 5,000 pieces of the coin! Ever the enterpreneur, Glenna packaged them and sold each piece for upwards of $200!

Link | Glenna Goodacre’s website | ICG Article