Catalog
1 Dollar
| Issuer | Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe |
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| Year | 2007 |
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| Currency | Third Dollar (2007-2008) |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette of the Chiremba Balancing Rocks in Matopos National Park, rendered in multicolour intaglio. The Zimbabwe Bird appears at upper right in colour-shifting optically variable ink. Guilloche underprint fills the background, with the denomination numeral '1' at left. |
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| Reverse description | Large vignette of Victoria Falls (Mosi-oa-Tunya — The Smoke that Thunders) on the Zambezi River, rendered in multicolour intaglio, occupying the central and right portions of the note. A Water Buffalo is shown at left foreground, with a guilloche underprint throughout. |
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By the time this note entered circulation, Zimbabwe's annual inflation rate was already well past 1,000% — the 1 Dollar denomination was functionally worthless within weeks of issue. Giesecke & Devrient in Leipzig supplied the printing throughout much of the hyperinflationary series, a logistical irony given that foreign currency was simultaneously being hoarded as the only reliable store of value in the country.
P#65 belongs to the short window before the Reserve Bank began lopping zeros through successive redenomination exercises. The third redenomination in 2009 eventually replaced it at a rate of 10^12 old dollars to one new one.