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Message:: [QUOTE="kaparthy, post: 747548, member: 57463"]Yes, I have an envelope of those and others.  The envelope is labeled GOOGOLS.  (The word "googol" is attributed to Milton Sirotta, then nine. <a href="http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Googol.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Googol.html" rel="nofollow">See here.</a> Mathematics and the Imagination, Kasner and Newman, 1940.) I also have a Turkish note, a bunch of Hungarian pengos and adopengos and the usual.  A while back it was pretty easy to get those revalued Brazilian notes overstamped with new denominations but you don't see them in the junk boxes any more. I guess we would need to define "inflation" and "hyperinflation."  Is "hyper" bigger than "super"?  We never say "superinflation" always "hyperinflation" but in the sense that it is sudden and catastrophic.  But consider the Japanese Yen and the American Dollar.  A hundred years ago, Japan went over the gold standard.  Their silver Yen and their gold Yen were on the US standard, 1-to-1.  Japan won a string of small wars and lost one big one, and now their yen is worth 1/100 of a dollar, while the dollar of 2010 is worth about 1 to 3 cents of 1940.  But they don't feel it, and neither do we because the lower value issues (cent, yen) have dropped away from daily commerce.  But if we were do to as the Turkish government did with their Lira, we would have only cent-sized cent coins with Lincoln on them, but they would say 100 cents and the dollar bill would say 10,000 Cents and the ten-spot would be 100,000 and so one up to the $100 bill at 1 Million Cents. So, if you want to show Inflation Currency, show a Cent, a Dollar and a C-Note.[/QUOTE]

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