1000 Dollars

By 2003, Zimbabwe's inflation had already rendered the 1000 Dollar note nearly useless in daily commerce almost from the moment of issue. Fidelity Printers International — the Reserve Bank's own captive printer in Harare — had taken over production after the government severed its relationship with foreign security printers, partly for cost reasons and partly to insulate the note-printing program from outside scrutiny as monetary conditions deteriorated.

The reliance on a single domestic printer with limited security technology is visible in the relatively sparse counterfeit deterrence on this issue — a watermark, and little else.