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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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| In circulation to | 30 September 2015 |
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| Obverse description | The obverse carries a central vignette of the Chiremba Balancing Rocks in Matopos National Park, rendered in multicolour underprint, alongside the Zimbabwe Bird emblem executed in colour-shifting ink. The denomination "TEN TRILLION DOLLARS" appears in bold letterpress, with the issuing authority title "RESERVE BANK OF ZIMBABWE" across the upper register and the promise-to-pay clause below. |
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| Reverse lettering | 10 000 000 000 000 RESERVE BANK OF ZIMBABWE |
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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.