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The Zimbabwean one hundred trillion dollar note is a denomination of Zimbabwean currency.It is one of the world's largest denominations of currency. [1] It was first issued in Zimbabwe on 16 January 2009 during the period of hyperinflation when the prices of goods rose rapidly and the government printed money in increasingly larger denominations to match market prices.
On 2 February 2009, the Reserve Bank introduced banknotes of the fourth dollar, equal to one trillion (1 000 000 000 000 or 10 12) third dollars: the banknotes of the third dollar were supposed to lose legal tender status by 1 July 2009, but the power-sharing government of Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai instead suspended the Zimbabwean dollar ...
The first Zimbabwean dollar was introduced in 1980 and replaced the Rhodesian dollar at par. The initial ISO 4217 code was ZWD. At the time of its introduction, the Zimbabwean dollar was worth more than the US dollar in the official exchange market, with 1 ZWD = US$1.47, although this did not reflect the actual purchasing power it held.
The Zimbabwe dollar has come under sustained pressure in recent weeks, making it one of the world’s worst performing currencies. Zimbabwe introduces new currency as depreciation and rising ...
It was thus worth 10 trillion trillion original dollars, as the three redenominations together reduced the value of an original dollar by 10 3 × 10 10 × 10 12 = 10 25. Computers could not handle the amount of zeros such that other forms of money had to be used to act as normal money (bearer's cheques).
The government had previously floated various ideas to replace the Zimbabwe dollar, including introducing gold coins to stem inflation and even trying out a digital currency.
The ZiG is Zimbabwe's sixth attempt since 2008 at creating a new currency that will make it independent of the US dollar. [16] Since the currency crisis of 2008–2009, Zimbabwe has a multi-currency system. It was introduced in 2009 after the hyperinflation of the fourth Zimbabwean dollar (ZWL). For ten years there was no Zimbabwean currency.
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