Upper arm with a realistic colour tattoo of a US 100 dollar banknote, showing the word DOLLARS and the number 100, beside a white t-shirt sleeve.

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Hundred dollar bill tattoo on upper arm

Upper arm · Colour · Photo

The design is a detailed copy of a US 100 dollar banknote, showing the word DOLLARS, the numeral 100 and part of the central portrait and ornate border. The linework is fine and the shading is soft, giving the note a flat, printed look on the skin. Muted greens, tans and black outlines fill the rectangular composition, which sits across the outer upper arm below a white t-shirt sleeve.

Upper arm Banknote Dollar bill Money Portrait

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

The lorry will not turn over unless somebody feeds it diesel, and by Thursday the only money left in the wagons is the hundred. Ashdown has kept it folded inside the lid of his tin cashbox since the American tour in 1979, when the big top still sold out in Ohio and the elephants had their own timetable. You take it out under the single bulb in the menagerie tent, where the straw smells of old rain, and hold it up to the light the way he taught you.

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The portrait looks past you with the patience of a man who has seen worse shows. The corners are soft from handling. Someone long ago drew a careful pen line through one of the numerals, and you wonder whether that was a mistake or a joke. Ashdown is asleep in the caravan with a bottle of cheap sherry on the step, and his painted board still leans against the ring fence: THE GREATEST SHOW ON THIS FIELD.

You could walk it to the garage in Diss before it shuts. You could also walk it down to the hedge where the village children leave their bicycles and ask whether any of them has ever seen a note this size. Instead you go to the caravan and slide the bill under the sherry bottle, portrait face up, and tell him the lorry needs fuel.

He wakes, reads the crease, and laughs until he coughs. "That's the last of the real ones," he says. "Spend it on the lorry and you're spending the show." You tell him the show was spent years ago. He sits up, presses the bill flat on his knee the way you would smooth a ticket for a child who has lost theirs, then folds it again along the old line and puts it back in your hand. "Keep it," he says. "A hundred is a long way to drive on nothing."