High Denomination Zimbabwe Banknotes
 

Does anyone know where one can find these in ridiculously high denominations, say 100 million or higher? I know I could just wait until FRNs are printed in these denominations, but I'd like one now, as a teaching tool.
TIA

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Yes! I would like one too, the bigger the better!

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Got one:http://cgi.ebay.com/Zimbabwe-Banknot...QQcmdZViewItem

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:4_1_72:
"Holy Cow!" the solution to hyperinflation is... eBay !!!

Buyers History
Item number: 360102786961
Zimbabwe Banknotes BILLIONS SET $5, 25, 50 & 100

Price Qty Date of Purchase
US $39.00 1 Nov-01-08 15:45:02 PDT
US $39.00 1 Nov-02-08 21:41:01 PST
US $39.00 1 Nov-03-08 20:42:29 PST
US $39.00 1 Nov-05-08 20:54:09 PST
US $34.00 1 Nov-18-08 10:03:18 PST
US $34.00 1 Nov-28-08 18:54:05 PST

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Heres another:http://cgi.ebay.com/Zimbabwe-100-BIL...3A1%7C294%3A50

Best deal:http://cgi.ebay.com/Zimbabwe-100-000...3A2%7C294%3A50

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See my new avatar I added this morning.:biggrin:

I also found the lowest denomination bank note. :biggrin:

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Thanks, everyone! My daughter and me are now multi-billionaires! Got the 100 billion notes.

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Make your taxes payable in fiat, and it suddenly has value.

Backed by guns!

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What's that on the reverse of the 100 billion note, empty grain silos?

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The silos are full, but they're in Nebraska.

And those aren't giraffes, they're horses with hyperinflated necks.

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I note with approval that they are using anti-counterfeiting features on their bills. With those bills worth almost as much as 2 squares of Charmin, the counterfeiting problem could get ugly.

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I bought each of my adult children a 100 billion dollar about 2 months ago note to try and get them to understand that our FRNs are of no more value than these.

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That's the secondary reason why I bought the notes. I'm going to give my daughter one of them as a birthday present, sort of an object lesson about the danger of fiat money. I wouldn't waste giving one to my wife or parents, as they have a definite "can't happen here" mentality.

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That's the problem. The "ha, ha, can't happen here" reaction. That's the whole dam problem and why we sit at sites like this one night after night trying to sound the alarm while there still is time.

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I'm waiting for them to hit the $1 trillion note, then I'm gonna go long Z$ and short US$. (Buy a few Z$ 1 Trillion notes on eBay.):biggrin:

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I get the same thing, although my wife is waking up fast thank God!

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Be very thankful that she is trying to awake! Despite my best efforts, my wife is a lost cause I'm afraid, until she sees empty grocery store shelves.

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i can't wait till the scientific notation bills come about!!

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That's just Sick!! :biggrin:

:emotions16:

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They've already made it to the 10^11th level.

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I bought some off ebay myself:

http://photos-c.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-...35426_2262.jpg

http://photos-a.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-...35424_1667.jpg

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Don't be shy T. Tell us how you really feel!! :RockOn:

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LOL yeah, the guy should get to the point!:10_1_20:

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Last year I finally convinced her to move her 401k $$ to guaranteed interest bonds "just for a while, until we see how the economy is going to go."
Her friends lost thier asses so she figures she's super smart now, as it was all her idea.:wink:

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This would be a good start for a end of 08 thread. But let's not forget the 730+ billion dollar banking give away.

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I just bought a $100 Billion note myself. Lots of fun.

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I'd like to get one myself, Ebay I take it?

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Inflation must be up over there again, as the prices have come down:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...m=250348217127

Only $4.95 for a multi billion dollar note. Ouch.

I just picked up 5 of them for s___ and giggles.

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Yeah, but we still have '-illion' words to describe them....
crap. i just wiki-ed it and found that there are names to describe numbers up to very high powers recognized my multiple authorities:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_of_large_numbers
but they are not commonly known....
I'm guessing that no .gov would be willing to put 'sextillion' on a note simply because of the giggling it would cause in school children....

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Yep. Got my 100 billion notes today, the wife still can't believe it. "Honey, we're billionaires!"

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Welcome to GIM! :15_1_70v:



(unless you are another incarnation of a current or previously banned member...then welcome back)

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Oh wow.. Thanks.

I didn't notice that was my first post. I've been reading this place for so long now, I forgot that I've just been a lurker all this time.

Thanks for the welcome!

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There's a lot of them.

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The only Zimbabwe Banknote I have is this:

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The "$"'s are not part of the bank note. I bought one for $10 at a coin show. I bought it for just a novelty item and nothing else. It is interesting to me.

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I just bought a couple of the 100 billion notes for conversation pieces / novelty. Just curious, do you know whats up with an expiration date on a bank note? Looks like your 500,000,000 just expired last week?!

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Be careful when buying High Denomination Zimbabwe Banknotes. Be sure the Banknote is authentic. There's nothing worse than having a counterfeit on your hands when you try to use it.

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:4_1_72::rofl::111::ARMS1::banana:

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I bought a few of the Z$100 billion notes on eBay last week, for a souvenir. (I was in Zimbabwe 20 some-odd years ago. At the time the restaurants and shops wouldn't take the local currency, only US$ or GBP.)

Anyway, the Z$100 billion notes are of higher quality than US paper. :banghead: I think the paper was supplied by a German banknote company.

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As a foreigner I was always shocked what crappy paper the US uses as currency. It's appalling really.

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I noticed while looking at these notes a few things:

1st. The words "Pay the bearer on demand" followed by a denomination
then an "on or before a date"

2nd. An issue date only a few months before.

I'm wondering if one cashes this "note" at the Reserve bank of Zimbabwe
what are they paid in? Maybe rice grains...

What if you try to redeem after "the on or before date"?
maybe you are SOL?!

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I can help it. But looking at the picture of the note above, and considering the real "value" of this note, is it just me, or does the right side of the note look like a :moon:?

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Yup, a BIG :moon:. and it's leaving a trail of $ $ $ $ behind it. :biggrin:

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that's very interesting observation about the expiration dates on the notes. It seems they still preserve the idea of a paper certificate but it doesn't say redeemable in what.

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Here's the full set - from 1 cent to 100 billion dollars. Now this would be the best way to teach someone about the ravages of inflation! Why are they so poor when everyone is a multi-billionaire?

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...D50%26_fvi%3D1

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I just received $300,000,000,000 in these notes..... I'm rich! Cost me $14 w/ shipping to join the Billionaire club... "But he still lives in a modest home" ;)


One of these is going up on my wall at work as a conversation starter... "Yeah, thats us... sooner than later....."

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LOL. Nice find! It does. It's fitting. Zimbabwe is the "butt" of our jokes right now.

They will change the bill once deflation begins to kick in, and it will look like this:

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When I gave each of my adult children a billion dollars for Christmas they thought it was just the coolest thing to have. Later we were able to have a very good discussion on where this country is headed.

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Found by fellow GIM'er randymatt

Trillions are now rolling out!!!
http://goldismoney.info/forums/showt...=1#post1515411

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I would love to wallpaper my bathroom with those.

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I picked up some big bills, but also one of these cool 10 cent coins with a baobab tree on them:

http://www.baobab-fruit.com/baobab_tree.html

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That is supposed to be some hella wood for building guitars.

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Not sure if that makes sense:

http://www.junglephotos.com/africa/a...bnathist.shtml

"Baobab wood is very fibrous and spongy, which helps it store water. When someone takes an axe to the tree, it literally bounces off! Chainsaws get clogged up and stop dead."

What I did not realize is the coin baobab tree is practically a mirror image of the one in the Youtube video right next to it! I guess once you've seen one baobab, you've seen them all (this is actually not true, they can be quite unique, and there are different types)!

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Maybe it was for the fretboard. I remember going to a guitar building class about a decade ago, and I am pretty sure my friend built his bass using baobob wood. It might have just been the fretboard though.

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And you thought you were rich because you had a few hundred billion dollars. Try this on for size.

What amazes me about this is that Ag_man started this thread three weeks ago looking for $100 million notes or so, and we're already at looking at this.

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Hope this link works.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...s_and_eggs.jpg

According to wiki, it takes one of these notes to buy these items..

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Wow...

So I guess I got robbed.... I bought 9 eggs worth of currency (mabye a dollar or so) for $14 w/ s&h...

But Im the only billionare on my block! Thats gotta be worth something?

There's a good lesson in here for the kids though. My 11 yr old and 8 yr old instantly thought we were rich until I explained how currency can become worth less and less based on what a corrupt govt does, or on world events...

Now they understand why there's silver in the house......only a couple ounces of course...;)

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So I wonder what the 10 cent note can buy?!

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You can now get these at APMEX!

http://www.apmex.com/Product/47816/Z...tors_New_.aspx

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$7.99!? I paid $3.99 on eBay. :biggrin:

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You're a piker, aren't they out in $100 trillion denominations now?

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Yeah that's a better deal, just thought if anyone was ordering from AP they might want to add one in as I will in my next order!

I'll be getting billions back!

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My friend, through his brother (who lives in S. Africa just south of Zimbabwe) gave me one of these - the edge was torn off but I taped it back on, you almost can't tell!

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Joke for Jay Leno:

Hey, I've got a president born nearby who'd love to help them out of the their problems and maybe we'd get a REDO, please, maybe? :signs14::111:

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And finally, the Z$20, 50 and 100 trillion notes! I think this is the highest they've gotten so far. I'd love to see a quintillion dollar note, I wonder if they'll make it that far...

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The really fun part is that the Zimbabwean "Fed" has revalued the notes on several occasions. This is where they declare that 1 new-new-new $Z dollar is worth 1 billion new-new $Z dollars. According to wikipedia once the revaluations are taken into account, the $Z dollar has inflated 10 to the 31st power times since the country first issued currency after the Brits left.

This is literally a larger than astronomical number. It is aprox 14,000,000 times the observable universe as measured in inches. (186,000 X 12 X 3600 X 24 X 365 X 10^10th = 7.04 X 10^23rd).