250 000 Lira

By 2002, Turkish inflation had been so persistent for so long that the 250,000 lira represented a denomination that would have been unthinkable a generation earlier. The lira had lost roughly 99.9% of its value against the US dollar between 1970 and 2002, a cumulative erosion that forced the mint to produce coins in denominations requiring six digits. This issue was among the last of that absurd arithmetic — the New Turkish Lira redenomination of January 2005 wiped six zeros from the currency, retiring the entire pre-reform series at once.