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** The U.S. Treasury stopped producing large bills to make it difficult for criminals to move large sums of cash. $1,000,000 in $100 bills weighs about 20 lbs. and takes up over 600 cubic inches of space - not something you can easily hide when passing through security. |
** The U.S. Treasury stopped producing large bills to make it difficult for criminals to move large sums of cash. $1,000,000 in $100 bills weighs about 20 lbs. and takes up over 600 cubic inches of space - not something you can easily hide when passing through security. |
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*** Likewise, the Bank of Canada no longer issues $10,000 or $1,000 bills; the $100 note is the current highest Canadian denomination. |
*** Likewise, the Bank of Canada no longer issues $10,000 or $1,000 bills; the $100 note is the current highest Canadian denomination. |
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* Due to hyperinflation in Zimbabwe, the regime eventually printed bills as high as $Z 100 trillion, seen [http://www.coins-and-banknotes.com/images//Products/Large/207328-100%20Trillion.jpg here]. |
* Due to hyperinflation in Zimbabwe, the regime eventually printed bills as high as $Z 100 trillion, seen [https://web.archive.org/web/20140604055845/http://www.coins-and-banknotes.com/images//Products/Large/207328-100%20Trillion.jpg here]. |
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* During the hyperinflation in Germany during the Weimar Republic, this was the norm for currency, especially around 1922-25. Currency denomination in the billions was not uncommon at the time. There is one story, possibly apocryphal, of a man who wheeled trillions of marks in a wheelbarrow to deposit; as he stopped in, the wheelbarrow was stolen, but the stacks of by-then-worthless cash were left on the street. Almost any collectors' stamp store will have scads of 20-''billion''-mark postage stamps from the time, most of them uncancelled (as they were made obsolete by the mounting inflation shortly after they were issued and most people never bothered using them). |
* During the hyperinflation in Germany during the Weimar Republic, this was the norm for currency, especially around 1922-25. Currency denomination in the billions was not uncommon at the time. There is one story, possibly apocryphal, of a man who wheeled trillions of marks in a wheelbarrow to deposit; as he stopped in, the wheelbarrow was stolen, but the stacks of by-then-worthless cash were left on the street. Almost any collectors' stamp store will have scads of 20-''billion''-mark postage stamps from the time, most of them uncancelled (as they were made obsolete by the mounting inflation shortly after they were issued and most people never bothered using them). |
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* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthetic_diamond Diamonds can now be manufactured] using a technology that's essentially a superpowered pressure cooker. The diamond cartels are ''terrified'' that these might be seen as equivalent in value to natural diamonds, to the point that they now package the natural diamonds with written histories and even [http://www.forevermarkdiamond.com etch trademarks onto them]. |
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthetic_diamond Diamonds can now be manufactured] using a technology that's essentially a superpowered pressure cooker. The diamond cartels are ''terrified'' that these might be seen as equivalent in value to natural diamonds, to the point that they now package the natural diamonds with written histories and even [http://www.forevermarkdiamond.com etch trademarks onto them]. |
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