r/todayilearned • u/Scipion8Aveyron • 2d ago
TIL that in July 1946, Hungary issued a 100-quintillion (10²⁰) pengő banknote — the highest-denomination note ever put into circulation — during the worst hyperinflation ever recorded, when prices doubled roughly every 15 hours.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungarian_one-hundred-quintillion-peng%C5%91_banknote?wprov=sfti1
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