”“The composition of paper money gives it great resistance and durability, making it an excellent support for painting, especially oil-based painting, which is my favourite medium.”

Francisco CorsoMoney Artist (Venezuela)
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Dutch Post-Impressionist painter Vincent Willem van Gogh, white skin, redhead hair and beard. He wears a white shirt under a blue costume, with a blue green background. After the painter's self portrait, 1889, on a pink banknote.
Vincent Van Gogh

Vincent Van Gogh

English rock band The Rolling Stones. From left to right: white haired Charlie Watts dressed in black; black haired Keith Richards dressed in black with a black hat, his hands resting on the others shoulders; brown haired Mick Jagger dressed in black and black haired Ronnie Wood; all are smiling. From a 2022 docuseries “My Life as a Rolling Stone” by Mark Seliger on a green banknote.
The Rolling Stones

The Rolling Stones

A llanero with a cowboy hat, dark green jacket, red scarf and yellow boots, rides a dark brown horse in a river. On the grassy green riverbank, a pack of white-grey cows watch him, green bushes and grasses in the background, on a green banknote.
Los Llanos de Venezuela

Los Llanos de Venezuela

Argentine professional footballer Lionel Andrés Messi, white skin, dark eyes, brown hair and beard. He wears an Adidas branded sky blue and white striped shirt with the Argentine Football Association black and yellow logo, on an orange banknote.
Leo Messi

Leo Messi

Young woman, white skin, blue eyes and red lips. She wears a yellow and blue hair scarf, white clothes under a brown jacket, a silver pearl earring hangs on her left ear. After "Girl with a Pearl Earring" by Dutch Golden Age painter Johannes Vermeer, 1665, on a purple banknote.
Girl with a Pearl Earring

Girl with a Pearl Earring

Star Wars Droid character K-2SO, blu eyes, metallic dark green and silver built, on a red-brown banknote.
K-2SO

K-2SO

Portuguese writer and 1998 Nobel Literature Prize José de Sousa Saramago after a photograph by Bengt Eurenius. White skin, dark eyes and semi bald white hair He wears brown glasses, a green costume with a brown tie, his left cheek rests on his left wrist, on a yellow-green banknote.
José Saramago

José Saramago

Amazonian young woman, brown skin, dark eyes, pink lips and black hair. She wears a red stripe across her face under the eyes, a multi coloured feather hearing and red and white clothe, on a green banknote.
Venezuelan Native

Venezuelan Native

Star Wars character Din Grogu (or Baby Yoda), bald, green skin with large pointy reddish hears and big brown eyes. He wears brown clothes, on two brown-pink banknotes.
Grogu

Grogu

Mexican painter Frida Kahlo, wearing a blue headdress with pink flowers in her black hair, red lipstick, gold hearings and necklaces and a black jacket, on a green banknote. From "Frida Kahlo on White Bench, New York" by Nickolas Muray, 1939.
Cinco mil Kahlos

Cinco mil Kahlos

Comic books superhero Captain America, created by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby published by Marvel Comics. He wears a blue helmet with a A mark and a blue uniform with a five branched star on his torso, on a purple-brown banknote.
Captain America

Captain America

British singer and songwriter Amy Winehouse. She wears a yellow dress, red lipstick and eye make up, a girl tattooed on her right upper arm, on a pink-red banknote. From "Amy Winehouse, Back to Black" painting by Vincent Keeling.
Amy Winehouse

Amy Winehouse

Humanoid robot character C-3PO from the Star Wars movie franchise, metallic gold built, on a blue-purple banknote.
C-3PO

C-3PO

A white haired woman posing, she wears red pants and top, a yellow-white coat, black glasses and pink cat hears headband. In her right hand, she holds a pink mobile phone connected to black headphones, smoking a cigar, on a yellow-green banknote.
100 Years Young

100 Years Young

Venezuelan artist and sculptor Jesus Rafael Soto, white skin, dark eyes, grey hair and moustache, smiling. He wears a white shirt under a red jacket, on a yellow-green banknote.
Jesús Soto

Jesús Soto