Happily, the faces on commercial bank notes are not limited to dead politicians and royals. News from Scotland, the most golfing-mad of the three regions (the other two are Northern Ireland and Hong Kong) where private notes are still allowed:

Jack Nicklaus will feature on a 5- pound ($9) note to be issued by Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc to commemorate his last appearance as a professional golfer in the British Open at St. Andrews.

The U.K.'s second-largest bank by assets, which sponsors the 65-year-old, will release the note on July 12, two days before the 134th Open Championship. No living person other than a member of the British royal family has ever appeared on a Scottish or English banknote.

How cool is that? (No cutting remarks, please, about how the Golden Bear has become a Paper Bear.) Story here.