AHC: One Quadrillion

The Challenge: Create a Situation in which a nation creates and uses a One Quadrillion (That's 1,000,000,000,000,000) Unit of currency.

Although history records horrible acts of hyperinflation, I've never heard of "One Quadrillion" being used on any monies. So, how would a country actually create a 10^15 bill.

Heroic Challenge: Somehow find an actual IRL 1 Quadrillion Bill of any denomination.

Rules:

  • Having a nation decide to have 1 quadrillion Millionths (or other fraction) is valid.
  • Revaluing a currency is also valid; You'd still need a Million Billions to do it, so it would be difficult to achieve.
  • This needs to be a valid unit of currency. It can't be a advertisement or a non-money item, it needs to at least at the time of printing be worth its face value.
  • Although some nations might have a horrible exchange rate (perhaps at their worst reaching 1 Quad to $1, this isn't about exchange rate--it's about getting an actual 1 Quadrillion bill created.
  • If you like, a 1 Quadrillion coin is also valid, but it needs to be currency.


Have Fun!
 
Well Zimbabwe revalued several times in quite rapid succession between 2006 and 2009 so that the 2009 Dollar was worth 10^25 pre-2006 Dollars.

Of course this was before the currency was suspended in 2009.

They also share with Weimar Germany the status of having printed a 100 trillion bill (10^14), though only Zimbabwe printed that many zeros actually on the note.
 
Yep, I can see Zimbabwe or Weimar GErmany doing it, as others have said, 100,000,000,000,000 isn't to far afield...
 
At the rate it is going in Zimbabwe it will happen there soon.

Zimbabwe's currency was invalidated years ago. They've been using the US dollar ever since.

It's not implausible to think that they could have printed one quadrillion bills in that time, though, as their overall revaluation (four different currencies under hyperinflation) is second only to Hungary.
 
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