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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Troodon, post: 26310288, member: 4626&quot;]It&#039;s kind of what I figured; a case of pareidolia, where someone saw a face where none was really intended.&nbsp; The photograph of the Queen the engraving was based off of (taken in 1951, when she was still Princess Elizabeth of York, and the heir presumptive) has the same &quot;face&quot; there if you look hard enough, so it was definitely entirely a coincidence.&nbsp; The notes were out for about 2 years before there&#039;s any published reference to anyone thinking it looked like there was a face in the Queen&#039;s hair.&nbsp; They did eventually modify the portrait by darkening the Queen&#039;s hair to remove the appearance of the supposed &quot;devil&#039;s face&quot; but they didn&#039;t recall the original notes, giving rise to a collectible variety among the series 1954 notes.&nbsp; At any rate an interesting and somewhat amusing story, that gave rise to the demand to collect the &quot;devil&#039;s face&quot; notes.&nbsp; It exists on all denominations ($1, $2, $5, $10, $20, $100, and $1000).&nbsp; In 1956 with no change of the series date, modified versions were made with the Queen&#039;s hair darkened to no longer have the &quot;devil&#039;s face&quot; apparent (usually called the &quot;modified&quot; version of the notes).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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