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10 000 000 000 000 Dollars
| Issuer | Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe |
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| Year | 2008 |
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| Printer | Fidelity Printers and Refiners, Harare, Zimbabwe |
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| Obverse lettering | 10 000 000 000 000 RESERVE BANK OF ZIMBABWE I promise to pay the bearer on demand TEN TRILLION DOLLARS for the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe HARARE 2008 |
| Reverse description | The reverse presents a vignette of the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe headquarters building at centre-left, complemented by a second vignette of the conical tower within the Great Enclosure at the Ruins of Great Zimbabwe near Masvingo (formerly Fort Victoria). The denomination and issuing authority are repeated across the upper portion of the note within a guilloche border. |
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By the time this note entered circulation in 2008, Zimbabwe's inflation rate had long since passed any meaningful statistical threshold — the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe eventually stopped publishing official figures when annual inflation exceeded 230 million percent. Ten trillion dollars bought a loaf of bread, briefly, before that price doubled again within days. Fidelity Printers and Refiners, the state-controlled security printer in Harare, was producing denominations faster than the ink could dry, and the colour-shifting ink and security thread were almost absurd inclusions on a note that would be economically worthless within a week of issue.
The series was demonetized in 2009 when Zimbabwe abandoned the dollar entirely in favour of foreign currency.