Link: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4geyyg9en6o

British wildlife will replace historical figures on the next series of Bank of England banknotes - and the public will get their say on which animals and birds will appear.

Images of wildlife would be difficult to counterfeit, while also allowing for a celebration of nature across the country, the Bank said.

It spells the end for the, sometimes controversial, choice of historical characters which have appeared on £5, £10, £20 and £50 notes for more than 50 years.

That's all well and good until some species goes bad and we have to cancel it.

It will be the jackdaw. We should just distance ourselves from that trouble.

"The public will get their say"

Public votes? So that'll be a Tit, a Cock, a Booby and a Chough then?

Love this. Wish we could do this in the U.S. someday.

I like to see the UK getting a little more Canadian.

We’re not putting fucking cobra chickens on the tenner, yeah.

Wait I'm confused - how is wildlife harder to replicate than historical figures?

People are all like "yeah, jackdaws are fine, they don't bother me, blah, blah" but they'll change their minds pretty quickly when they get a big sphinx of quartz.