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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 ...
A third redenomination, producing the "fourth Zimbabwe dollar", occurred in February 2009, and dropped 12 more zeros from the currency. 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.
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.
Despite the notes being notionally pegged to the US dollar, their value, like the former Zimbabwean dollar, is collapsing, with everyday transactions using a rate of $3 bond notes to 1 United States dollar in January 2019 and over $90 bond notes to US$1 as of November 2020. [11] As of August 2022, the conversion rate is $361.9 bond notes to US$1.
Hyperinflation in Zimbabwe was one of the few instances that resulted in the abandonment of the local currency. At independence in 1980, the Zimbabwe dollar (ZWD) was worth about US$1.49 (or 67 Zimbabwean cents per U.S. dollar). Afterwards, however, rampant inflation and the collapse of the economy severely devalued the currency.
The Zimbabwean dollar (sign: Z$; code: ZWL), [5] also known as the Zimdollar or Real Time Gross Settlement (RTGS) dollar, [6] [7] was the currency of Zimbabwe from February 2019 to April 2024. It was the only legally permitted currency for trade in Zimbabwe from June 2019 to March 2020, after which foreign currencies were legalised again.
Ipknightley 04:41, 16 October 2011 (UTC)I have a TEN Trillion Dollar bill in my possesion. For clarity, the Ten Trillion dollar bill is $10,000,000,000,000 And there is a One Hundred Trillion bill: $100,000,000,000,000 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 97.127.176.4 08:29, 11 February 2012 (UTC)
Pegged against the U.S. dollar coins were denominated at 1, 5, 10, and 25 cents and later followed by a 50-cent coin in 2015. [2] A bi-metallic one-dollar bond coin was released on 28 November 2016. [3] A bi-metallic two-dollar bond coin was released into circulation in 2018. in 2024 the Zimbabwe gold was introduced and replaced the Zimbabwe ...