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Strangest Banknotes
World's Largest Banknote (Philippines)
As large as a sheet of legal paper, the world's
largest single banknote is the
100,000-peso note created by the Government of
the Philippines in 1998 to
celebrate a century of independence from Spanish rule.
The note was offered only
to collectors, who could purchase one of the
limited-edition notes for 180,000 pesos (around US$3,700).
One Hundred Trillion Dollars (Zimbabwe)
Worth about US$300, the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe
began printing these $100 trillion banknotes in January 2009.
At the time, the country had the highest inflation rate
in the world, and the bill pictured above was
worth about US$300. In July 2008, the
inflation rate reached a stunning 231 million percent!
A single loaf of bread cost
roughly 300 billion Zimbabwean dollars.
By April 2009, the Zimbabwean dollar was
defunct, but you can still get a copy of the banknote online.
YOU must b very strong in arithmatic ven u go 4 shopping! -
n so d shopkeeper
500,000,000,000,000,000,000 Banknote (Yugoslavia)
The former European country of Yugoslavia experienced an amazing
hyperinflation starting in 1989, until economic reforms
took place in 1994. The highest banknote
denomination in 1988 was 50,000 Dinara,
but this had changed to 500,000,000,000 Dinara by 1994!
Einstein's Banknote (Israel)
Punched out Mobutu Banknotes (Zaire)
In 1997, the African country of Zaire, known today
as the Democratic Republic of the Congo,
overthrew the totalitarian regime of Joseph Mobutu.
When the new government found itself in a
cash shortage, they decided to use large stacks of old
20,000-Zaire notes by simply punching out
Mobutu's image, sustaining them until the new
currency was designed and printed.
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