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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 ...
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.
Selection of 16 original un-circulated Zimbabwe notes ranging in denomination from 1 dollar to 100 trillion dollars. They are all signed by G Gono, the Governor of the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe, in the period 2007 to 2008, who promises "to pay the bearer on demand".
The government had previously floated various ideas to replace the Zimbabwe dollar, including introducing gold coins to stem inflation and even trying out a digital currency.
The Z$100 trillion banknote (Z$10 14), equal to Z$10 27 (1 octillion) pre-2006 dollars Zimbabwe inflation of almost 25,000% in 2007 Hyperinflation in Zimbabwe was one of the few instances that resulted in the abandonment of the local currency.
The ZiG is Zimbabwe's sixth attempt since 2008 at creating a new currency that will make it independent of the US dollar. [16] Since the currency crisis of 2008–2009, Zimbabwe has a multi-currency system. It was introduced in 2009 after the hyperinflation of the fourth Zimbabwean dollar (ZWL). For ten years there was no Zimbabwean currency.
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The Zimbabwean dollar (sign: Z$; 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.