* ''DoctorWho'' had some specially commissioned notes made with portraits of David Tennant and (producer) Phil Collinson on them for ''The Christmas Invasion''. This was for legal reasons, though, and now these props go for a pretty penny on [=eBay=].
** The reason ''Doctor Who'' used fake notes may have been not so much that they weren't allowed to use real currency, but that the scene involved a cash machine malfunctioning and shooting banknotes across the street. There'd be too much risk of the notes becoming damaged or getting pocketed by the extras who scrabble across the street collecting the notes. It's not an offence to show money on TV, but it is an offence to damage or destroy it.
* Notably averted in ''ArtAttack'', where Neil Buchanan made a vast portrait of the Queen out of Â£100,000's-worth of real Â£10 notes, which the Bank of England lent him.
* Harry Enfield's early character Loadsamoney's "wad" used the first method described above, being two real Â£10 notes with lots of appropriately cut newspaper in between.

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* ''DoctorWho'' had some specially commissioned notes made with portraits of DavidTennant and (producer) Phil Collinson on them for ''The Christmas Invasion''. This was for legal reasons, though, and now these props go for a pretty penny on [=eBay=].
** The reason ''Doctor Who'' used fake notes may have been not so much that they weren't allowed to use real currency, but that the scene involved a cash machine malfunctioning and shooting banknotes across the street. There'd be too much risk of the notes becoming damaged or getting pocketed by the extras who scrabble across the street collecting the notes. It's not an offence to show currency on British TV, but it is an offence to damage or destroy it.
* Notably averted in ''ArtAttack'', where Neil Buchanan made a vast portrait of the queen out of hundreds of thousands of pounds worth of real £10 notes, which the Bank of England lent him.
* Harry Enfield's early character Loadsamoney's "wad" used the first method described above, being two real £10 notes with lots of appropriately cut newspaper in between.

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