While waiting for my car getting its oil changed, I went to the coin store across the street, and this jumped out at me, my first fractional: USA, 10 cents, 1863 Also recently got this in the mail, with a nominal denomination 1 quadrillion times the first note I posted here! This note currently holds the record for the most zeroes ever on a printed and released banknote, 14! (Hungary had a higher nominal denomination on a banknote than that, but they only printed the denomination in words instead of showing all the digits.) Zimbabwe, 100 trillion dollars, 2008 Both nice looking notes, and great conversation pieces!
great notes troodon! i still gotta get the trillion dollar notes from this past series in zimbabwe, but i got the rest unfortunately, its the trillion dollar notes that are still fetching good prices on ebay.
I'm sure a lot of Zimbabweans are doing precisely that, realizing that the collector's value far exceeds the actual buying power of these notes. (A lot of eBay sellers of these notes have locations listed as Zimbabwe or some African country near Zimbabwe.) However, the novelty value seems reserved for the highest denomination (or at least most recent series); whenever Zimbabwe has put out a new series, selling prices on eBay for older series drops sharply. Zimbabwe's on their 4th dollar now (1 4th Zimbabwe dollar = 1 quadrillion 3rd Zimbabwe dollars, giving these two notes technically the same nominal denomination!) but haven't issued any notes denominated in the 4th dollar yet. As they've not really taken significant steps to actually curb the root causes of inflation, expect the new series to get huge denominations as well pretty quickly. Might even break the 14 zero record!
