Post Your Inflation Era Coins and Bills

I just bought these for fun a couple weeks ago.

 

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Turkey.
250000 lire 2003.

 

Ukraine.
200000 karbovantsiv 1996.

 

Turkmenistan.
1000 manat 1999.

 

San-Marino.
1000 lire 1995.

 

Kingdom of Romania.
10000 lei 1947.

 

Mexico.
1000 pesos 1988.

 

Italy.
1000 lire 1970.

 

Vatican City.
1000 lire 1978.

 

Zambia.
1000 kwacha 2004.

 

Such combinations of words and numbers I find interesting. The big "250" is followed by the text bin lira which means "thousand lira". When the New Lira was introduced later, the term yeni lirası (new lira) was used - and I have seen questions whether "bin" means "old". Errm, no.

At the time of the Hungarian hyperinflation a similar method was used for paper money. Instead of printing many zeros, they used the words milpengő (one million pengő) and b(il)pengő (one billion pengő) to make the numbers handier ...

Christian

 

I occasionally buy both German and Russian early 1900s notes. They are colourful, cheap and a great piece of history for less than a pound or two.

 

Agreed! I purchased these both for one euro a piece while I was in Germany.

 

This made me laugh. I need one!