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100 Quintillion Dollars
| Issuer | Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe |
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| Year | 2007-2008 |
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| Currency | Dollar (2007-2009) |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette presents an intaglio-style rendering of the Chiremba Balancing Rocks of Matopos National Park, set against a green and multicolour guilloche underprint with a triangular geometric pattern at lower left. A blue rhino vignette appears at the right panel, accompanied by a vertical security strip and serial number. The Governor's facsimile signature and the date HARARE 2008 appear at lower centre. |
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| Reverse lettering | RESERVE BANK OF ZIMBABWE 100000000000000000000 |
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This note belongs to Zimbabwe's third dollar series, introduced as hyperinflation was already rendering denominations obsolete faster than they could be printed. By late 2008, the monthly inflation rate had exceeded 79 billion percent according to the Cato Institute's calculations — a figure that makes the face value of 100 quintillion (10²⁰) dollars almost comically inadequate as a practical denomination.
The Reserve Bank issued successively larger denominations throughout 2008 in a losing race against price increases, culminating in the 100 trillion dollar note before the Zimbabwean dollar was formally abandoned in 2009. The quintillion-denomination notes from this period were largely spent or discarded within days of issue.