[SampleMan]

Reminds me of the time I parked the jet in Brazilia and ran to get a cheeseburger, fries and Coke, while it was fueled up.

Not speaking Portuguese, I just pointed at what I wanted and handed the fry cook at the line shack a US $5. They pulled out a cigar box to make change and before they were through I had a hand full of the local totaling over 850,000 (and that was the change for a $5). I gave all my siblings a crisp 100,000 note that year for Christmas.

[staytrue]

The largest banknote now in circulation in Chavezland is the 50,000 bolivar note which is about 12 dollars.

[NorthernTraveler]

Well, the first time I went to Turkey - March 2001, the biggest note they had was 5,000,000 Turkish lira - about $5.00 US at the time.

By 2002 they had a 20,000,000 note... by then only worth about $15.00. The largest denomination note in the world at the time.

Howard Stern made this famous by offering women on his TV show 1,000,000 Turkish Lira to take their tops off on national TV. Many did so... not realizing it was only worth a buck.

I used to go into high schools as a guest lecturer to talk about Turkey... I always took some Turkish currency to talk about the relative value of money. The kids LOVED the million notes....

In 2005 (or 2006) they dropped SIX zero's off their money... it is now called 'New Turkish Lira'.

Wonder how that's worked out for them!!!