bill – Roumazeilles.net https://www.roumazeilles.net/news/en/wordpress Technology opinions and others Sat, 29 Mar 2008 18:04:32 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Big money https://www.roumazeilles.net/news/en/wordpress/2008/03/27/big-money/ https://www.roumazeilles.net/news/en/wordpress/2008/03/27/big-money/#respond Thu, 27 Mar 2008 14:30:50 +0000 https://www.roumazeilles.net/news/en/wordpress/2008/03/27/big-money/ Sometimes, the economy is not faring well, sometime it’s too good. In both cases, it may lead to astonishing bills. I found some cases, I really loved.

The biggest single US dollar bill

This is not even really a bill since it’s more a tool to manage gold exchanges in an economy that was based on gold: a gold certificate. It was never circulated in the public since 1034, and is only visible in museums.

Bill of 100000 US dollars - front

Bill of 100000 US dollars - back

Source: PurpleSlinky.com.

The weird Zimbabwe bills

In a country where the economy totally collapsed, the Zimbabwe dollar has no value left: Inflation reached several tens of thousands of percents (much more than what hit the German economy of the 30’s), crushing the mere value of any bill in just days.

As a matter of fact, this 10 million dollar bill does not allow you to pay anything (valued a few euros a few months ago, it’s really worthless now).

Zimbabwe, ten millions dollars

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