This is How We Do

[King Kool]

(Its a one Billion Mark note)

Fixed that; "trillion" != "Eine Billion SScarf"


But still Epic Win for illustrating rampant inflation.

Um, I think in Europe, the word "billion" means what Americans call "Trillion."

[Lord Chrusher]

[King Kool]

They put a picture of ROCKS on their 100 trillion dollar note? WE put Harry Truman!

[Dave-O_Boy]

So what's the difference?

OH ice burn.



*cough* I did not just type that.

[empath]

Um, I think in Europe, the word "billion" means what Americans call "Trillion."

Aye, that's the "long scale billion" (or billion = 'million million') as opposed to the "short scale billion" ( billion = 'thousand million'); UK, Commonwealth, USA, and indeed most of the world uses the short scale, but Continental Europe mostly uses the long scale.



BUT all this is MOOT, since I'm referring to the terms on the banknote itself - that itself refers to billion and thousand million, so that's the standards I'm using.

I guess the Weimar Republic was using the short scale at the time...before things went completely Librarian Poo. *shrug*



Oh, and the highest bid is Zimbabwe with one hundred trillion (short scale - one hundred billion long scale), do I hear one quadrillion?

One quadrillion?

Going once...

[Tapir12]

The saddest part is that before they redid their dollar (in Feb) that would have been worth $0.28 cents American.

[Master Gunner]

This bill never actually made it into circulation, but was the result of the massive hyperinflation in Hungary following WWII.


Now, that may not look that impressive at first, but that "b" on the bill, it stands for billion, with pengo being the base unit of currency. Also, this was with the long scale. So that's One Million Billion Pengo (again, long scale), which works out to 10^21, or about 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000.

Even if you only want to go by what was released into circulation, there's still the 10^20 one, which is still 100,000,000,000,000,000,000.


I laugh at your puny quadrillion.

[Chfan]

Did you know in Zimbabwe they have sewer system problems from people using bills in lieu of toilet paper?

[Cake]

In Zimbabwe, people would take home their paychecks in wheelbarrows, and the wheelbarrow would be worth more than the stack of money in it.

[empath]

>Paging Dr. Stark; Dr. Graham Stark please take a call on line 10!<

*click*

"Ah, Dr. Stark? Hi there - Chapter Head of the Teratogenic Incubationists Club. Congratulations; you're in!"

[ecocd]

U.S. Bills over $100 were pulled from circulation to make it more difficult for people to hoard cash.

I thought it was primarily to deal with counterfeiters and drug dealers. Carrying around cases of $100s is much less convenient than envelopes of $1,000s. The $100 bill is the most counterfeited paper currency in the world (a fact I just made up, but is probably true).

[King Kool]

If it's not, then the counterfeiters are missing out.

[ThrashJazzAssassin]

Sadly, no one on the internet has a picture of the British £10,000 note, although to be honest it looks a bit dull anyway - denominations that large are just written out like an IOU instead of having fancy pictures on. There are, however, exactly 10,000 of these in existence:

[Mad Madam Mimm]

I didn't think there were any english notes above £50...

[GreigKM]

It had to be done

[Raine]

I may have an one up...



Or not...
Still funny!

[Fuzzyfreaker]

I can neither confirm nor deny that I printed one of these out on bill stock before.

[Re'ozul]

And here is what happens to all that money.

[Raine]

I can neither confirm nor deny that I printed one of these out on bill stock before.

-1 for bad pun

This is what i thought...

[mxd3496]

The $100 bill is the most counterfeited paper currency in the world (a fact I just made up, but is probably true).

Actually the US $20 is the most commonly counterfeited, in the US at least not sure about the world. It is the most commonly circulated bill so it is far easier to pass off a counterfeit when it gets lost in the mix. Very few people use $100s regularly so they are always scrutinized.

[Unlucky]

I lolled profusely.

Congratulations people, my side now hurts. CLAPS FOR ALL.

[VanHelsing23]

This is all so ridiculous. Thank god we've moved to bottle caps.

[Evil Jim]

People in retail are dangerously lazy when it comes to checking four counterfeits. There are several security measures directly on US currency but I only ever see cashiers mark it with the supposed security pen before deciding it's good enough to cash.

When I had to run register I'd always do a quick check of front/back, the colour shifting ink, watermark & security thread of bills $20 & up. It may have looked weird but that's what they're there for. Other employees still scolded me for not using the stupid pen.

[Sir_Substance]

The saddest part is that before they redid their dollar (in Feb) that would have been worth $0.28 cents American.

i had a mate bring back this one from a trip to africa recently:

http://i133.photobucket.com/albums/q75/Sir_Substance/P7180003.jpg

i would have won it if one of my mates hadnt been such a manly man and eaten the WHOLE megadeath burger!

(for those not from Adelaide, the megadeath burger is supposed to be 10,000 times hotter then a jalapeno)

edit: replacing with URL tags because IMG tags hate me

[Dutch guy]

What is that "security pen" supposed to do??