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50 000 000 000 000 Dollars
| Issuer | Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe |
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| Year | 2008 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Reverse description | Two intaglio-style vignettes occupy the centre of the note: at left, a view of the Kariba Dam wall on the Zambezi River with water cascading through its spillways; at right, an African elephant standing amid woodland vegetation. The background carries a multicolour geometric guilloche underprint in green, pink, and blue, with denomination numerals at upper left and lower right within ornate border panels. |
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| Protection description | the Zimbabwe Bird visible when held to light; embedded security thread running vertically through the note; optically variable colour-shifting ink used for the Zimbabwe Bird vignette on the obverse. |
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By late 2008, Zimbabwe's month-on-month inflation had crossed 79.6 billion percent — a figure the International Monetary Fund calculated before abandoning the attempt to track it further. This note, denominated at fifty trillion dollars, was not an outlier or an emergency stopgap; it was a routine transactional instrument, issued because the previous high denominations had become worthless within weeks of printing. Fidelity Printers, operating under severe forex shortages, struggled to source adequate paper and ink stock throughout this period.
Zimbabwe formally abandoned the dollar in April 2009, roughly four months after notes of this denomination entered circulation.