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| 正面铭文 | 5000 000 000 RESERVE BANK OF ZIMBABWE I promise to pay the bearer on demand FIVE BILLION DOLLARS for the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe HARARE 2008 |
| 背面描述 | Two intaglio-printed agricultural vignettes are set side by side at centre: the left panel illustrates pesticide application over cultivated crop rows, while the right panel portrays a dairy farming milking scene with workers attending cattle in a milking parlour. A geometric guilloche pattern in pink, lilac, and blue tones fills the background, with the denomination numeral repeated at lower left and lower right. |
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By mid-2008, Zimbabwe's month-on-month inflation had exceeded 2.2 million percent, and the Reserve Bank was locked in a losing race with its own printing presses. The five billion dollar note — five thousand million — was functionally worth very little within days of issue, and Fidelity Printers and Refiners in Harare could not produce denominations fast enough to keep pace with price movement. The colour-shifting ink and security thread were expensive features to include on a note that would be economically obsolete before the ink dried.
Gideon Gono, who signed the series throughout this period, later published a self-exculpatory memoir. The note predates the January 2009 redenomination by only months.