I bought a 100 trillion, 50 trillion and 10 trillion dollar bills on ebay. If you collect world currency, this is a piece of history.
Although the dollar
was considered to be among the highest valued currency units when it was first introduced in 1980 to replace the Rhodesian dollar at a ratio of 1:1, political turmoil and hyperinflation rapidly eroded the value of the Zimbabwe dollar to eventually become one of the
least valued currency units in the world.
2009- A loaf of bread in Zimbabwe now costs about 300 billion Zimbabwean dollars — and like most commodities, the price increases every day."CNN
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| Reason: hyperinflation, resulting in the suspension of local currency
Ratio: none—currency abandoned |
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| Month | ZWR per USD |
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| Sept 2008 | 1 000 |
| Oct 2008 | 90 000 |
| Nov 2008 | 1 200 000 |
| Mid Dec 2008 | 60 000 000 |
| End Dec 2008 | 2 000 000 000 |
| Mid Jan 2009 | 1 000 000 000 000 |
| 2 Feb 2009 | 300 000 000 000 000 |
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