Rock stars really like money drops. Bands including Muse and Foo Fighters printed their own rock star money Dollar and Euro bills to give away at concerts. Here’s a closer look at those awesome rockstar reproduction banknotes…
Foo Fighters dollars: In Rock We Trust
American rock band Foo Fighters commissioned $1.5 Million US dollars in reproduction $100 bills for their 2012 concerts in Reading and Leeds. US designer & developer Lee Martin and creative agency Morning Breath designed a rock-lookalike of the infamous Benjamin Franklin 2006 series $100 US dollar banknote.

- Benjamin Franklin is replaced by a skull.
- Instead of ‘100’, text in corners reads ‘Foo’.
- Issuing bank is ‘Federal Reserve Dope’.
- Serial number starts with FF for Foo Fighters
- followed by 666 ‘the number of the beast’
- then 2682012: concert date 26 August 2012
- black seal reads ‘Foo Fighters California’
- green seal reeds ‘In Rock We Trust 1994’
- country name ‘Foo Fighters of America’
- signed ‘Treasure Finder of the Foo’
- ‘Six Zero Six’ refers to recording studio 606
- hand writing ‘Claire’ for song ‘Planet Claire’
- back side writing includes ‘FF + UK = TLA’
- TLA meaning Three Letter Acronym
- URL on back inrockwetrust.co.uk
Muse: 20 Muso banknote Bank of Muse
When British rock band Muse went touring in 2013, they wanted to include a money drop on one of their concerts too. The Muse band members liked the Foo Fighters dollars, and so they contacted Lee Martin and Morning Breath to design a Euro version of the Foo Fighters reproduction banknote. The result is an altered version of the most widely circulated Euro denomination, the 50 Euros banknote from the first series.

- the colour resembles that of the €50 note
- but the denomination of the Muse note is 20
- top corner on both sides shows a partial ‘M’
- EU 12 stars replaced by 3 stars, Muse’s headcount
- EURO & EYPO replaced by MUSO & MUSE
- Euro text reads BCE ECB EZB EKT EKP 2002
- Muso text reads MUS EMU SEM USE 2ND 2013
- 2ND refers to Muse album ‘The 2nd law’
- Big ‘M’ instead of denomination (50)
- Muse concert stage instead of Renaissance window
- URL http://bank.muse.mu
- serial number M2013MUSE2ND
- number 13 on reverse side bottom right corner
- back side has picture of Muse’s three band members