100 000 Nouveaux Zaïres

By 1996, the Banque du Zaïre was printing notes at the Hôtel des Monnaies in Kinshasa — a domestic press operation that had largely replaced foreign security printers as the country's economic collapse accelerated. This 100,000 Nouveaux Zaïres denomination reflects the terminal stage of that collapse: the Nouveau Zaïre itself had been introduced in 1993 at a rate of one new unit to three million old Zaïres, yet within three years inflation had rendered even six-figure notes effectively worthless in daily transactions.

Mobutu's government fell the following year. The currency was abolished entirely in 1997 when the country was renamed the Democratic Republic of the Congo.