Queen Elizabeth II & her devil-may-care attitude

Well actually, with her devil-may-care hairdo.

In 1954 Canada had a new portrait of the Queen engraved for their $1 banknotes, which were then issued into circulation in quite large numbers.

However they had to be smartly withdrawn and re-engraved because the devil’s face appeared on the side of her head, getting these notes their nickname of the ‘devil’s hairdo’.

The top note has the devil’s face, the lower being the reissued version. These devil notes are not greatly rare but are far less common than the reprinted ones.