Fri, 30 Sep 2011 11:45:46 GMT | By Simon Ward, senior editor, MSN Money
David Bowie and Luol Deng star on new Brixton pounds

New £1, £5, £10 and £20 notes

The new Brixton pound notes featuring David Bowie, Violette Szabo, Luol Deng and Lenford Kwesi Garrison (© Image: Brixton Pound)
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The Brixton pound is celebrating its second anniversary by launching a new set of notes featuring famous former local residents. Academic and activist Lenford Kwesi Garrison is on the £1 note, Chicago Bulls and Great Britain basketball star Luol Deng is on the fiver, David Bowie (in Aladdin Sane make-up) is on the £10 and second world war secret agent Violette Szabo is on the £20.

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John pollard (Pollyworks)
01/10/2011 14:37
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THE CURRENCY IN THIS COUNTRY IS POUNDS STERLING !!!!
IF YOU WANT A DIFFERENT CURRENCY - GO LIVE IN ANOTHER COUNTRY

david Izzard (daveharpley)
01/10/2011 18:38
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Why not, never herd of most guys on our money !
neil gould (billli4)
02/10/2011 08:36
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What a croc o sh1t, if the local people want to spend money locally they don't need a toy town money to do so, I am on my way down to collect one of the b£20 notes and believe me if it can be forged easy it will better than wining the lottery 
Someone (antondec)
02/10/2011 13:30
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Mike Nimrod...read a few of your comments...nice brave ones about Jade Goody by the way. You are just so full of hatred & bile for everyone & everything...Is your pen1s really so small??...Will you make that same comment down in Brixton?? Will you f#ck. Spineless waste of 5punk.

John Pollard..try caps lock off. There's a good boy.

Jess Cully (tranmere66)
01/10/2011 22:56
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Playwright Sarah Kane was a notable Brixtonian. Hope she is honoured by having her portrait on one of the notes one day.

Delighted to see Violette Szabo on there. Her biography by her daughter Tania, "Young, Brave and Beautiful", is a fascinating read.
davy biggins
09/04/2013 08:55
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I don't get this at all our currency is the great English pound how did someone let this happen what next if you don't like the pound go and live some where else
dharminder
30/09/2011 15:49
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The new currency looks colourful, look forward to see it in circulation.

 

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