500.000 Intis

The 500,000 Inti note is one of the more dramatic artifacts of Peru's hyperinflationary collapse under the second García administration. By 1990, annual inflation had exceeded 7,000 percent — the Inti had been introduced in 1985 to replace the debased Sol at a rate of 1,000 to one, and within five years it too was worthless. This note's face value, unthinkable at introduction, became routine pocket change before the series was abandoned entirely.

The Inti was itself replaced by the Nuevo Sol in 1991, at one billion Intis to one — a ratio that required notes at exactly this denomination to even function.