Canadians honoring Leonard Nimoy by 'Spocking' $5 bills
Canadian fans of Leonard Nimoy are paying tribute to the late actor by grabbing their markers and "Spocking" $5 bills.
The Canadian Design Resource came up with the idea to transform the current face of the $5 bill, Prime Minister Sir Wilfrid Laurier, into Nimoy's iconic Star Trek character. CDR publisher Todd Falkowsky told Quartz that it's the perfect bill to customize. "The existing portraits are quite large and can be improvised with easily, and the color of our $5s are the same blue as Spock's uniform," he said.
While defacing bank notes isn't outright illegal, it's frowned upon, Mashable reports. In 2002, a Bank of Canada spokeswoman said it "strongly objects to any mutilation or defacement of bank notes," as it limits the life of the bills and it costs to replace them. Still, marked up notes are still legal tender and can be used in transactions.
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Catherine Garcia is night editor for TheWeek.com. Her writing and reporting has appeared in Entertainment Weekly and EW.com, The New York Times, The Book of Jezebel, and other publications. A Southern California native, Catherine is a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
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